The Wind That Shakes the Barley Lyrics

I sat within a valley green
I sat me with my true love
My sad heart strove to choose between
The old love and the new love
The old for her, the new that made
Me think on ireland dearly
While soft the wind blew down the glen
And shook the golden barley
Twas hard the bitter words to frame
To break the ties that bound us
But harder still to bear the shame
Of foreign chains around us
And so i said, "the mountain glen
I'll seek at morning early
And join the brave united men"
While soft wind shakes the barley
As sad I kissed away her tears
Her soft arms 'round me flinging
When suddenly the foul man shot
From out the wildwood ringing
The bullet pierced my true love's heart
In life's young spring so early
And on my breast in blood she died
While soft winds shook the barley
But blood for blood without remorse
I've taken at oulart hollow
And I have lain her clay-cold corpse
Where i full soon must follow
As 'round her grave I wander drear
Night, noon and morning early
With breaking heart when e'er I hear
The wind that shakes the barley