Grace

As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail

I think about these past few weeks

Oh, will they say we've failed?

From our schooldays, 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'll 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 for 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 dear land

But when Padhraic called me to his side down in the GPO

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

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

They'll 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 for we must say goodbye

Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too

On this May morn as I walk out my thoughts will be of you

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

I love 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'll 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 for we must say goodbye

No, there won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye