Irish Brigade Bye Bye Ballymena! Lyrics

Bye Bye Ballymena we're going far away
For they tell us that the RUC will be disbanded any day
We've served a life time in its ranks
To God and Ulster true
Now they've given us a medal and said sign up on the
brew

I became an RUC cadet as soon as I left school
And I earned a pretty packet for maintaining British
rule
I was proud to were the emblem of the harp beneath the
crown
And to uphold law and order just by clamping fenians
down

Well they taught all RUC cadets to be loyal fair and
kind
And to never hit a Catholic unless its from behind
When it came to target practice I scored ten out of ten But there were no cardboard Provo's when I went to
Crossmaglen

I've been stoned and spat and sniped at
And it seems unfair to me
We were piggy's in the middle at the standoff at
Drumcree
Our parentage has been questioned they've called us
lazy slobs
And to add insult to injury we've lost our bloody jobs

So bye bye Ballymena for we won't be back again
We just can't stand the prospect of taking orders from
Sinn Féin
We're leaving in the morning we really are you see
I just hope the foreign legion still takes lads like
Bert and me.