in eleven sixty seven they came to ireland on the make they were followed by invasions and by conquests in their wake the kings and queens of england made the land a battleground they took the land by fraud defeat by murder poison and deceit murder plunder fallaballa clear the way cheating stealing diddly idel day ducking diving fallaballa clear the way diddly aidel doh diddly aidel day then by the fifteenth century they held precariously to the pale the invaders were more irish than the irish that s the tale a fat greedy king s dick was bigger than his brain imposed a reformation confiscating usurpation you ll never beat the irish no matter what you do you can put us down and keep us out but we ll come back again you know we are the fighting irish and we ll fight until the end you know you should have known you ll never beat the irish the virgin queen elizabeth brought more turmoil to our land she decimated munster scorched the earth and all at hand then james the first and charles the mad brought out other greedy bands they took the land of ulster killed their chieftains poisoned plundered murder plunder fallaballa clear the way cheating stealing diddly idel day ducking diving fallaballa clear the way diddly aidel doh diddly aidel day and by defective titles they cheated connaught and the west across the seventeenth century from war we had no rest for the curse of cromwell plagued the land til our towns were red with blood then the battle of the boyne was fought by william james and foreign hoards you ll never beat the irish no matter what you do you can put us down and keep us out but we ll come back again you know we are the fighting irish and we ll fight until the end you know you should have known you ll never beat the irish