The Irish Civil War - which side are you on?

Our glorious Civil War heroes

They fought so proudly together

They said “we'll always be brothers”

Until they reached the end of their tether

Some said “I 'm signing the Treaty”

Others said “if you sign you're a traitor”

Then they said to each other “it's war, now!”

And it's time to meet your creator

These heroes they took out their rifles

And fired them straight at each other

They fought together for Ireland

But now brother was killing his brother

T'was always a clean fight with honour

To the depths, our young men would not descend

At least that's what Paddy would tell you

Before he blew the head off his best friend

So let us remember a story

About two childhood friends, they were besties

They swore they would never be enemies

Until Johnny cut off Paddy's testes

Then Johnny raped poor Paddy's woman

He said that he didn't regret it

Because Paddy had murdered his brother

And Johnny could never forget it

Then Johnny burned poor Paddy's house down

Paddy's mother and father inside it

When the war crimes tribunal came calling

Our Johnny, he went and denied it

In the village they ne'er spoke about it

The best cure they said it was silence

But 100 years later, we honour

All the bloodlust and hatred and violence

We celebrate killing Mick Collins

Ah sure of course he deserved it

A traitor he was to oul' Ireland

To our cause he went and deserted

Noble acts, there were so many of them

We celebrate oul' Ballyseedy

Where they tied ten men to a landmine

Would be 20 men had they been greedy

More than Britain they hated each other

Civil war was an Irish production

A glorious blow for our freedom

Except for the death and destruction

Such heroes are never forgotten

The brightest, the best and the bravest

Our founding fathers were killers

Oh Jaysus, Lord bless us and save us