《The Broad Black Brimmer》歌词

[00:00:00] The Broad Black Brimmer - Brier/Cormac O'Moore

[00:00:05] There's a uniform that's hanging

[00:00:07] In what's known as Father's room

[00:00:09] A uniform so simple in it's style

[00:00:13] It has no braid of gold or silk

[00:00:15] No hat with feathered plumes

[00:00:17] Yet Mother has preserved it all the while

[00:00:21] One day she made me try it on

[00:00:23] A wish of mine for years

[00:00:25] "In memory of your father Sean" she said

[00:00:29] And when I put the Sam Browne on

[00:00:31] She was smiling with the tears

[00:00:33] As she placed the broad black brimmer on my head

[00:00:37] It's just a broad black brimmer

[00:00:39] With its ribbons frayed and torn

[00:00:41] By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze

[00:00:45] An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn

[00:00:49] And breeches almost threadbare at the knees

[00:00:53] A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong

[00:00:57] A holster that's been empty many a day

[00:01:01] And when men claim Ireland's freedom

[00:01:03] The one they'll choose to lead 'em

[00:01:05] Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA

[00:01:12] It was the uniform been worn by my father years ago

[00:01:17] When he reached me mother's homestead on the run

[00:01:20] It was the uniform me father wore

[00:01:23] In that little church below

[00:01:25] When oul' Father Mac he blessed the pair as one

[00:01:28] And after Truce and Treaty and the parting of the ways

[00:01:33] He wore it when he marched out with the rest

[00:01:37] And when they bore his body down the rugged heather braes

[00:01:41] They placed the broad black brimmer on his breast

[00:01:45] It's just a broad black brimmer

[00:01:47] With its ribbons frayed and torn

[00:01:49] By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze

[00:01:53] An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn

[00:01:57] And breeches almost threadbare at the knees

[00:02:01] A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong

[00:02:05] A holster that's been empty many a day

[00:02:09] And when men claim Ireland's freedom

[00:02:11] The one they'll choose to lead 'em

[00:02:13] Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA

[00:02:18] When men claim Ireland's freedom the one who'll choose

[00:02:21] To lead them

[00:02:22] Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA