Flogging Molly Lyrics

Album: Within A Mile Of Home

To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh) Lyrics

Tell me why must a man be of service

 To his lord and the god seldom high

 From the grave spring the name of our fathers

 But there's no glint in a dead man's eye

 Tell me why are our fields filled with hunger

 And fruitless the crop bitter soil

 So I say my farewell to a nation

 As the leaf waves goodbye to it's son

 

 So it's to youth I sing you this story

 And it's of youth I sing it now

 Like the train that derails without warning

 I must leave what I left far behind

 So goodbye, sweet Roisin Dubh 

 I say goodbye

 

 Tell me why must our peace be this puzzle

 That fractures the land, splinters war

 The last nails cite the shame in our coffin

 But in the end we must all die alone

 

 So it's to youth I sing you this story

 And it's of youth I sing it now

 Like the train that derails without warning

 Some must leave what they left far behind

 So goodbye, sweet Roisin Dubh 

 I say goodbye

 

 And the bark fell from tree

 To the ground that they'll bleed

 On the anguish that never learned to shout

 With the clash of the drum

 We'll surrender the gun

 and on this sadness we shall no longer speak

 

 Until time can live on our all forgotten songs

 That's when I and we will sing again

 So goodbye to my love, my sweet Roisin Dubh

 Goodbye now until we meet again

 

 Tell me why must our grief still be greiving

 For a language that never spoke it's loss

 But this tongue speak with fire will tear down the barb wire

 And Rip the belly from the waxy ghost

 

 So it's to youth I sing you this story

 And it's of youth I sing it now

 Like the train that derails without warning

 We must leave what we left far behind

 

 So it's to youth I sing you this story

 And it's of youth I sing it now

 Like the train that derails without warning

 We must leave what we left far behind

 So goodbye, sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye

 

 So goodbye, sweet Roisin Dubh, I say goodbye

 Until we meet again

 Until we meet again

 Until we meet again, she arrives to beautify

 But slumber now must rest

 Oh my Roisin Dubh

 I'll forever love

 The youth you once possessed