The Protestant Man Songtext
von Wolfe Tones

It was back in history′s page, the story's told
Of a Napper Tandy brave and bold
With his scarlet and green, he then was seen
With his nig long gun his fighting men
And they beat at the drum, they fired their gun
And the shook the English establishment
And the Lords and the Peers, they then took fear
And Grattan got his Parliment

So here′s to those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people they sang their praises then
For those brave United Irishmen


In Belfast town their lived a man
And his name was Samuek Neilson
A Minister's son, Presbyterian,
And the paper called the Northern Star
And there was Henry Joy, the Green Volunteers
And Thomas Russel and McCabe and McTeir
To them was known a man Wolfe Tone
And they formed the first United Men

So here's to those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people they sang their praises then
For those brave United Irishmen

Sow your laws with dragons tdeth
And then you′ll see
That you have sowed the seeds of bigotry
Be England′s fool, divide they'll rule
So they set to break the United Men
And they killed them in the fields
And some in jail, and some upon the gallows high
When Willie Orr died his very last cry
Was "Unite and fight brave Irishmen"

So here′s to those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people they sang their praises then
For those brave United Irishmen


Cast dissensions to the wind, let all men lend
To the common name of an Irishman
For across history's page, to rant and rage
Men crossed the pails of bigotry
There were the men of 98′ no sadder fate,
Lord Edward, Tone and the brothers Sheres
It was Emmet's plea in 18 and 3
When he tried to set our country free

So here′s to those great Protestant Men
Who gave their lives to free our land
All the people they sang their priaises then
For those brave United Irishmen