Grace

Okay, for the last time this evening, boys and girls

We're gonna ask you to give us a nice bit of coolness

A very beautiful song, you know very well

It's back to 1960 and one of the forgotten heroes of that period

A young man called Joseph Mary Plunkert

While he was awaiting execution

He married his long time girlfriend

Grace Gifford, a very beautiful song

A song called Grace

As we gathered 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'll take me out at dawn and I will die

With all my love

I'll 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 bare for these brave men

My love for this dear land

So when Padraic 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'll 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

On this May morn, as I walk out

My thoughts will be with 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'll take me out at dawn and I will die

With all my love

I'll place this wedding ring upon your finger

There won't be time to share our love

So we must say goodbye

No, there won't be time to share our love

So we must say goodbye