Roisin (Last Farewell) - Brier

Dearest Mother I am writing just to say I won’t be home

There’s something that I have to do and I must do alone

They have took me and they’ve put me in this lonely prison cell

Tonight my thoughts are with you as I say my last Farewell

So say goodbye to Margaret, Mary Bridget and Michal

I have no words to tell you how much I miss you all

And though I may not show it you know I loved you well

So in my final letter I will bid my last farewell

Dearest brother won’t you take good care of all the folks for me

Go home to Rathfarnam on the day they set you free

I was happy when you stood by me in all that we’ve been through

No one has ever had so true a brother such as you

Dearest mother it’s so very sad that now we have to part

To understand the reason would trouble your poor heart

I have told you since I was a boy it was my destiny

To die a true brave soldier so that one day you’d be free