Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

 They say Mother Earth is breathing

 With each wave that finds the shore

 Her soul rises in the evening

 For to open twilight's doors

 Her eyes are the stars in heaven

 Watching o'er us all the while

 And her heart it is in Ireland

 Deep within the Emerald Isle

Verse 2

 We were forty against hundreds,

In someone else's bloody war.

We know not why we're fighting,

Or what we're dying for.

They will storm us in the morning,

As the sunlight turns the sky.

Death is waiting for it's dance now,

Fate has sentenced us to die.

Chorus

Ireland, I am coming home!

 I can see your rolling fields of green

 And fences made of stone.

 I am reaching out, won't you take my hand

 I'm coming home, I-re-land!

Verse

Oh the captain he lay bleeding

And I can hear him calling me

These men are yours now for the leading

Show them to their destiny

And as I looked up all around me

I see the ragged tired and torn

I tell them to make ready

Cause we're not waiting for the morn.

Chorus

Verse

Now the fog is deep and heavy

As we forge the dark and fear

We can hear their horses breathing

As in silence we draw near

And there are no words to be spoken

Just a look to say goodbye

I draw a breath and night is broken

As I scream our battle cry

Chorus

 Yes I am home, I-re-land!