Song of the Celts
# Song of the Celts

Song of the Celts is a patriotic song sung by several groups, notably the Wolfe Tones. Since the lyrics of the song discuss unity amongst Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Breton and Cornish ethnic groups, it may be regarded as an unofficial anthem of the Celtic people. Some sources list the song as "traditional", however a version of the song has been attributed to A. P. Graves by author Miranda Seymour in her biography of his son, poet Robert Graves.

## Lyrics

There's a blossom that blows That scoffs at the snows And it faces root fast The rage of the blast And it sweetens the sod No slave ever trod Since mountains upreared their altar to God

CHORUS: The flower of the free, the heather, the heather The Bretons and the Scots and Irish together The Manx and the Welsh and Cornish forever Six nations are we Proud, Celtic and free

There's a blossom that's rare As the life's blood we share And for liberty's cause Against alien laws With Lochiel and O'Neill And Llewellyn drew steel For Alba's and Erin's and Cambria's weal

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Let the Saxon and Dane Bear the rule o'er the plain On the hem of God's robe Is their scepter and globe And the lord of all light Revealed in his height For Heaven and Earth rose up in his sight

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