Merry Ploughboy - Johnny McEvoy

A young Johnny McEvoy singing Merry Ploughboy.{1966} for German television called ’LIED FÜR TRÄÜMER MÜISK FÜR REBELLEN’ translate to ’Songs For A Dreamer Music For Rebels. I am a merry ploughboy and I plough the fields by day Till a lightening flash came to me mind that I should run away I’ve always hated slavery since the day that I was born now I am off to join the . and I am off tomorrow morn. So we’re all off to Dublin in the green, in the green Where the helmets glisten in the sun Where the bay’nets flash and the riffles crash To the echo of a Thompson gun. I’ll leave behind me old grey coat I’ll leave behind me plough I’ll leave behind me horse and yoke, I no longer need them now I’ll take my short revolver, and my bondler of lead, and live or die I can but try, to avenge my countrys dead. So we’re all off to Dublin in the green, in the green Where