As I look out across the sea   I stand proud but am I free?   A thousand years have come and gone   I have won, I will go on   Stand firm against the storm   I cannot see it but it will come   And with the ghosts of a million Gaels   I will rise up, I will prevail      You can starve my children   You can kill my fighting man   Take away my right to freedom   And when my back is turned you kill again   You can burn my houses   Take away all that I have known   But the seeds are sown      When the Dane invaded   The held the Gael with a strangle-hold   Until Boru joined to clans   He won the war, re-claimed my lands   My green fields have been stained red   From the blood of the Irish dead   But with this fire that burns inside   I will always rebel, I will survive      You can starve my children   You can kill my fighting man   Take away my right to freedom   And when my back is turned you kill again   You can burn my houses   Take away all that I have known   But the seeds are sown