(Eamon O'Doherty)Come all of you fine people wherever you may be
I'll sing of a brave Belfast man
Who scorned the army's might though they'd shoot him on sight
And they shot down Joe McCann
Joe McCann
They shot down Joe McCann
In a Belfast bakery in the August of that year
When internment was imposed throughout the land
Six volunteers from Belfast held six hundred troops at bay
Their leader was Joe McCann
He fought for the people in the markets where he worked
In defence of the rights of man
But the hired branch crew told the soldiers what to do
And they shot down Joe McCann
He carried no gun so he started to run
To escape them as many's the time before
One bullet brought him down and as he lay on the ground
They shot him ten times more
His cause was the freedom of the people of this land
The Protestant and the Catholic working man
He caused the bosses to fear, for this they paid him dear
When they murdered brave Joe McCann
(as sung by Christy Moore)