Grace

As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham jail

I think about these past few weeks, oh will they say we failed

From our school days they have told us we must yearn for liberty

Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me

Oh Grace, just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger

They take me out at dawn and I will die

With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger

There won't be time to share our love so we must say goodbye

Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand

The love I bear for these brave men, my love for this brave land

But when Padraic called me to his side down in the G.P.O.

I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to goundefined

Oh Grace, just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger

They take me out at dawn and I will die

With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger

There won't be time to share our love so we must say goodbye

Now as the dawn is breaking my heart is breaking too

As I walk out on this May morn my thoughts will be of you

And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know

I loved so much that I could see his blood upon the rose

Oh Grace, just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger

They take me out at dawn and I will die

With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger

There won't be time to share our love so we must say goodbye