You may sing and speak about Easter Week and the heroes of ninety-eight Of the Fenian men who roamed the glen in victory or defeat Their names on history's page are told their memory will endure Not a song is sung of our darling sons in the Valley of Knockanure There was Walsh and Lyons and the Dalton boys they were young and in their prime They rambled to a lonely spot where the Black and Tans did hide The Republic bold they did uphold though outlawed on the moor And side by side they fought and died in the Valley of Knockanure 'Tis on a neighboring hillside we listened with calm dismay In every house in every town the maiden knelt and prayed They're closing in around them now with rifle fire so sure And Lyons is dead and Dalton's down in the Valley of Knockanure But ere the guns could seal his fate young Walsh had broken through With a prayer to God he spurned the sod as against the hill he flew But the bullets they tore his flesh in two he cried with voice so sure 'Revenge I'll get for my comrades deaths in the Valley of Knockanure' Oh the summer sun is setting now behind the field and lea The pale, pale moon is rising far out beyond Tralee The dismal stars and clouds afar are darkening o'er the moor And the banshee cried when our heroes died in the Valley of Knockanure