Lyrics to
Eire

This version of Eire was released by Thin Lizzy in 1971.

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In the land of Eireann
Sat the high king
Faced with the problems
The dreaded vikings

Gather all the men folk
Speaking the Celtic tongue
The land is Eireann
The land is young

Stands Red O’Donnell
Fighting the Saxon foe
With Hugh O’Neil
Oh

All along the north land
They fight bitterly
The land is Eireann
The land is free

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Eire, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Thin Lizzy. Some of the lyrics to Eire have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Thin Lizzy and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Eire if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Eire" means the words set to the music of Eire, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Thin Lizzy. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Eire and the lyrics to Eire are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Thin Lizzy who came here looking just for the lyrics to Eire, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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