As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham gaol
I think about these past few weeks, will they say we've failed?
From our schooldays they have told us we must yearn for liberty
Yet all I want in this dark place, is to have you here with me
Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
Verse
Now I know it's hard for you, my love, to ever understand
The love I bare for these brave men, the love for my dear land
But when Padraic called me to his side, down in the GPO
I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go
Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
Verse
Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too
On this May morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be of you
And I'll write some words upon the wall, so everyone will know
I loved so much that I could see, his blood upon the rose
Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye
There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye