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The West's Awake - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem

When all beside a vigil keep

The West's asleep the West's asleep

Alas and well may Erin weep

That Connacht lies in slumber deep

There lake and plain smile fair and free

'Mid rocks our guardian chivalry

Sing oh let man learn liberty

From crashing wind and lashing sea

For often in O'Connor's van

To triumph dashed each Connacht clan

And fleet as deer the Normans ran

Through Corrsliabh Pass and Ardrahan

And later times saw deeds as brave

For glory guards Clanricarde's grave

Sing oh they died their land to save

At Aughrim's slopes and Shannon's wave

And if when all a vigil keep

The West's asleep the West's asleep