Mick Ryan's Lament-Tim O'Brien

[ti:Mick Ryan's Lament] [ar:Tim O'Brien] [al:Two Journeys] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.76]Mick Ryan's Lament - Tim O'Brien [00:02.54] [00:08.81]Well my name is Mick Ryan I'm lyin still [00:12.82]In a lonely spot near where I was killed [00:16.11] [00:17.09]By a red man defending his native land [00:20.92]In the place that they call Little Big Horn [00:24.53] [00:27.96]And I swear I did not see the irony [00:31.82]When I rode with the Seventh Cavalry [00:35.44] [00:36.01]I thought that we fought for the land of the free [00:40.15]When we rode from Fort Lincoln that morning [00:43.44] [00:47.08]And the band they played the Garryowen [00:50.58] [00:51.35]Brass was shining flags a flowin [00:55.23]I swear if I had only known [00:58.95]I'd have wished that I'd died back at Vicksburg [01:02.70] [01:09.60]For my brother and me we had barely escaped [01:13.59]From the hell that was Ireland in forty eight [01:16.89] [01:17.73]Two angry young lads had learned how to hate [01:21.59]But we loved the idea of Amerikay [01:25.76] [01:28.30]And we cursed our cousins fought and bled [01:32.36]In their bloody coats of bloody red [01:35.51] [01:36.07]The sun never sets on the bloody dead [01:40.30]Of those who have chosen an empire [01:44.31] [01:45.04]But we'd make better life somehow [01:49.20]In the land where no man has to bow [01:53.17]It seemed right then and it seems right now [01:56.67] [01:57.31]That Paddy died for the union [02:00.39] [02:24.24]Ah but Michael he somehow got turned around [02:27.93]He had stolen the dream that he thought he'd found [02:31.50] [02:32.08]Now I never will see that holy ground [02:36.20]For I turned into something I hated [02:40.24] [02:40.91]And I'm haunted by the Garryowen [02:44.62] [02:45.34]Drums a beating bugles blowin' [02:49.15]I swear if I had only known [02:53.24]I'd lie with my brother in Vicksburg [02:56.19] [02:57.86]And the band they played that Garryowen [03:02.09]Brass was shin flags a flowin' [03:06.09]I swear if I had only known I'd lie with [03:10.67]My brother at Vicksburg