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Boy from Tamlaghtduff
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Christy Moore
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As we I walked over the Glenshane Pass I heard a young woman mourn The boy from Tamlaghduff she said is ten years dead and gone How my heart is torn apart this young man to lose We'll never see the likes again of young Francis Hughes For many years his exploits were a thorn in England's side The hills and glens became his home it was there he used to hide Often when surrounded he'd quietly slip away Like a fox hе went to ground and kept the dogs of war at bay Francis and three volunteers wеre coming around the pass When they were confronted by a squad of SAS The volunteers gave all they had till Francis took two rounds He gave the order to retreat and wounded went to ground The UDR and RUC came with their tracker dogs In their hundreds hunted him across the farms and bogs When he was too weak to move they captured him at last And from the countryside he loved they brought him to Belfast From Musgrave Park to Crumlin Road then to a H-Block cell He went straight on the blanket then on hunger strike as well Although his weapon had been changed to a blanket from a gun He wielded it courageously as the hunger strike begun As his young life ebbed away we helplessly looked on On the twelfth of May the black flags lay in 1981 Deep mourning around Tamlaghduff has turned to burning pride Francis fought them every day he lived and fought them as he died As I walked over the Glenshane Pass I heard a young woman mourn The boy from Tamlaghduff she said is ten years dead and gone How my heart is torn apart this young man to lose We'll never see the likes again of young Francis Hughes
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