[00:00.000] 作词 : David Rovics
[00:01.000] 作曲 : David Rovics
[00:06.54]My name is John Riley
[00:09.54]I'll have your ear only a while
[00:13.52]I left my dear home in Ireland
[00:17.13]It was death, starvation or exile
[00:21.81]When I got to America
[00:25.06]It was my duty to go
[00:29.08]Enter the Army and slog across Texas
[00:32.76]And to join in the war against Mexico
[00:38.25]It was there in the pueblos and hillsides
[00:42.77]That I saw the mistake I had made
[00:46.63]Part of a conquering army
[00:50.37]With the morals of a bayonet blade
[00:54.02]In the midst of these poor, dying Catholics
[00:58.04]Screaming children, the burning stench of it all
[01:02.25]Myself and two hundred Irishmen
[01:06.16]Decided to rise to the call
[01:09.53]From Dublin City to San Diego
[01:14.59]We witnessed freedom denied
[01:18.30]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[01:22.31]And we fought on the Mexican side
[01:26.31]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[01:30.31]And we fought on the Mexican side
[01:36.21]We marched 'neath the green flag of Saint Patrick
[01:40.00]Emblazoned with "Erin Go Bragh"
[01:44.28]Bright with the harp and the shamrock
[01:48.10]And "Libertad para la Republica"
[01:52.12]Just fifty years after Wolf Tone
[01:56.05]Five thousand miles away
[02:00.00]The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers
[02:04.52]And they can talk as they may
[02:07.62]From Dublin City to San Diego
[02:12.66]We witnessed freedom denied
[02:16.35]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[02:20.48]And we fought on the Mexican side
[02:24.51]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[02:28.51]And we fought on the Mexican side
[02:35.12]We fought them in Matamoros
[02:38.91]While their volunteers were raping the nuns
[02:43.00]In Monterey and Cerro Gordo
[02:46.52]We fought on as Ireland's sons
[02:50.13]We were the red-headed fighters for freedom
[02:54.17]Amidst these brown-skinned women and men
[02:58.54]Side by side we fought against tyranny
[03:02.95]And I daresay we'd do it again
[03:06.48]From Dublin City to San Diego
[03:11.36]We witnessed freedom denied
[03:15.15]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[03:19.32]And we fought on the Mexican side
[03:23.24]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[03:27.14]And we fought on the Mexican side
[03:57.23]We fought them in five major battles
[04:01.10]Churobusco was the last
[04:05.01]Overwhelmed by the cannons from Boston
[04:09.07]We fell after each mortar blast
[04:13.14]Most of us died on that hillside
[04:16.84]In the service of the Mexican state
[04:20.99]So far from our occupied homeland
[04:24.79]We were heroes and victims of fate
[04:28.63]From Dublin City to San Diego
[04:33.08]We witnessed freedom denied
[04:37.00]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[04:41.02]And we fought on the Mexican side
[04:44.57]From Dublin City to San Diego
[04:49.10]We witnessed freedom denied
[04:53.12]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[04:57.14]And we fought on the Mexican side
[05:01.11]So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
[05:05.14]And we fought on the Mexican side