The Boy From Tamlaghtduff

As I walked through the Glenshane Pass I heard a young girl mourn

'The boy form Tamlaghtduff 'she cried 'is two years dead and gone'

How my heart is torn apart this young man to lose

Oh I'll never see the likes again of my young Francis Hughes

For many years his exploits were a thorn in Englands side

The hills and glens became his home there he used to hide

Once when they surrounded him he quietly slipped away

Like a fox he went to ground and kept the dogs at bay

Moving round the countryside he often made the news

But they could never lay their hands on my brave Francis Hughes

Finally they wounded him and captured him at last

From the countryside he loved they took him to Belfast

Oh from Musgrave Park to the Crumlin Road and then to an H-Block cell

He went straight on the blanket then on hungerstrike as well

His will to win they could never break no matter what they tried

He fought them every day he lived and he fought them as he died

As I walked through the Glenshane Pass I heard a young girl mourn

'The boy form Tamlaghtduff 'she cried 'is two years dead and gone'

How my heart is torn apart this young man to lose

Oh I'll never see the likes again of my young Francis Hughes


				*IRISH REBEL LYRICS* *The Boy From Tamlaghtduff*



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