《The Broad Black Brimmer》歌词

[00:00:00] The Broad Black Brimmer - The Wolfe Tones

[00:00:09] There's a uniform that's hanging

[00:00:11] In what's known as Father's room

[00:00:13] A uniform so simple in it's style

[00:00:16] It has no braid of gold or silk

[00:00:18] No hat with feathered plumes

[00:00:19] Yet Mother has preserved it all the while

[00:00:23] One day she made me try it on

[00:00:25] A wish of mine for years

[00:00:26] "In memory of your father Sean" she said

[00:00:30] 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

[00:00:36] It's just a broad black brimmer

[00:00:38] With its ribbons frayed and torn

[00:00:40] By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze

[00:00:43] An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn

[00:00:47] And breeches almost threadbare at the knees

[00:00:51] A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong

[00:00:54] A holster that's been empty many a day but not for long

[00:00:58] And when men claim Ireland's freedom

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

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

[00:01:07] It was the uniform been worn by my father years ago

[00:01:11] When he reached me mother's homestead on the run

[00:01:14] It was the uniform me father wore

[00:01:16] In that little church below

[00:01:18] When oul' Father Mac he blessed the pair as one

[00:01:22] And after Truce and Treaty and the parting of the ways

[00:01:25] He wore it when he marched out with the rest

[00:01:28] And when they bore his body down the rugged heather braes

[00:01:32] They placed the broad black brimmer on his breast

[00:01:35] It's just a broad black brimmer

[00:01:37] With its ribbons frayed and torn

[00:01:39] By the careless whisk of many a mountain breeze

[00:01:43] An old trench coat that's battle stained and worn

[00:01:46] And breeches almost threadbare at the knees

[00:01:50] A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong

[00:01:53] A holster that's been empty many a day but not for long

[00:01:57] And when men claim Ireland's freedom

[00:01:59] The one they'll choose to lead 'em

[00:02:01] Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA