The saddest song in a long time

Todays date already to late
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Some of you readers my know that I'm REALLY into the, what is called, The Irish Brigade or the "69th" who fought in the Civil War if you'd like you can read about them in the following:

1. My sons were faithful and they fought.
2. http://69thnyvi.homestead.com/
3.Just read their Wikipedia page
4.Look up Kelley's Irish Brigade or Irish Volunteer 11 on youtube which are some song sung by them and have loads of info

But this song i recently found is the saddest song in a long time however really good. Here are the lyrics:


Free and Green-
Captain Taggart took the field
With his men as hard as steel
And we drove the bloody rebels to the sea
Before the guns were stilled
There were many hundreds killed
There's many an Irish girl sad tonight

When the smoke had cleared
It was just as we had feared
Captain Taggart lay wounded on the ground
With his head upon my knee
There he met eternity
I proudly closed his eyes and then I cried

Chorus:
Its whiskey in the mornin', whiskey in the night
Another Irish soldier-lad, has fought his final fight
We'll toast him till were drunk Boys, and dowse the candle light
Tell them Captain Taggart, is comin' home tonight

Well, we took his body home
And the drums and pipes did drone
And pulled a fine black casket through the streets
We told his grievin' wife
That he loved her more than life
And gave to his young son his father's sword

Now the people, they all dream
Of an Ireland free and green
Where nowhere can be heard the battle-cry
The fighting's gone too long
And it just drags on and on
I'd like to know some peace before I die

Chorus:
Its whiskey in the mornin', whiskey in the night
Another Irish soldier-lad, has fought his final fight
We'll toast him till were drunk Boys, and dowse the candle light
Tell them Captain Taggart, is comin' home tonight

Long Live Ireland