The Big Fellah - Black 47

Mo chara is mo lao thu

Is aisling tri nx allaibh

Do deineadh arx ir dom

IgCorcaigh go dx anach

Ar leaba im aonar

I remember you back in the GPO

With Connolly and Clarke

Laughin' with McDermott

Through the bullets and the sparks

Always with the smart remark

Your eyes blazin' and blue

But when we needed confidence

We always turned to you

And when they shot our leaders

Up against Kilmainham wall

You were there beside us

In that awful Easter dawn

Hey, big fellah where the hell are you now?

When we need you the most

Hey, big fellah c’mon

Tabhair dom do lamh

Back on the streets of Dublin

When we fought the black and tans

You were there beside us

A towerin' mighty man

And God help the informer

Or the hated English spy

By Jaysus, Mick, you’d crucify them

Without the blinkin' of an eye

Still you had a heart as soft as

The early mornin' dew

Every widow, whore and orphan

Could always turn to you

We beat them in the cities

And we whipped them in the streets

And the world hailed Michael Collins

Our commander and our chief

And they sent you off to London

To negotiate a deal

And to gain us a republic

United, boys, and real

But the women and the drink

Mick, they must have got to you

'Cause you came back with a country

divided up in two

We had to turn against you, Mick

There was nothin' we could do

'Cause we couldn’t betray the republic

Like Arthur Griffith and you

We fought against each other

Two brothers steeped in blood

But I never doubted that your heart

Was broken in the flood

And though we had to shoot you down

In golden Bx al na Blath

I always knew that Ireland lost

Her greatest son of all