Rebel Heart

From rebel veins my life I knew

In rebel arms I lay

From rebel lips the lessons drew

That lead me day by day

And rocked to rest on a rebel breast

Nursed on a rebel knee

There woke and grew, for weal or rue

A rebel heart in me

A rebel heart, a rebel heart

From taint of thralldom free

God prosper still through good or ill

This rebel heart in me

I read my country's chequered page

I've sang her deathless songs

I've learned her woes from age to age

I've burned to right the wrongs

And when I saw that to alien law

She never bent her knee

Then prouder yet for Ireland beats

This rebel heart in me

A rebel heart, a rebel heart

From taint of thralldom free

God prosper still through good or ill

This rebel heart in me