THE RETURN OF NED OF THE HILL song lyrics
by Joel Sattler

an Irish freebooter named Ned of the Hill
from High Tipperary a rapparee still
lived up in the badlands with his outlaw gang
tis he that we honored in the songs that we sang

the Treaty of Limerick ended the war
but it couldn't end what the fighting was for
the geese may have flown but young Ned had to stay
protecting his people for another day

the Lord tax collector was seizing a cow
from a crippled old woman without man or plow
he fought the King's man and he shot him dead
then there was a price on this Irish man's head

but Ned of the Hill Eamonn a Chnoic
was champion of poor and he gave John a kick
he turned himself in to collect the reward
and escaped in the night with his horse and his sword

Oh Ned of the Hill
Ned of the Hill
the sheriff can't catch you
and he never will
and when you're in heaven
and Kings are in Hell
your spirit be roamin'
o'er mountain and dell

for the English give not a good dam for the green
they don't even think we are human it seems
near 500 years under bad English law
the lion of Britain held Eire in its claws

so go where you will and will where you go
the English can't catch you they never will know
that an outlaw is outlaw only to the rich
but to the plain folk their own son of a bitch

Oh Ned of the Hill
Ned of the Hill
the sheriff can't catch you
and he never will
and when you're in heaven
and Kings are in Hell
your spirit be roamin'
o'er mountain and dell

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