Provie Birdie - Wolfhound {The Helicopter Song} - YouTube machree01

The song tells the story of the 1973 escape of three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners from Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. On October 31 an IRA member hijacked a helicopter and forced the pilot to fly to Mountjoy where the three prisoners, JB O'Hagan, Seamus Twomey and Kevin Mallon, were lifted by helicopter from the exercise yard of Mountjoy Jail's D Wing at 3.40pm. The incident caused major embarrassment for the Cosgrave's government. JB O'Hagan, died April 2001, Seamus Twomey died After a long illness, in Dublin in 1989. Provie Birdie (Seamus Robinson) On the [G] last day of October in the [C] year of 73 In [D] Mountjoy jail three rebels were [G] longing to be free And from the skies surprise, surprise, an [C] iron bird did fall An [D] lifted up the Provos high [C] over the Dublin [G] wall [chorus] And it's up and up and higher the helicopter flew High over the Dublin spires and over the Liffey too The length and breadth of Ireland, no finer sight to see The day the Provie birdie released the Mountjoy three. The screws were all astounded they knew not what to do They just stood there dumbfounded as off our rebels flew And in the Dail the traitors were shocked and quite aghast As they looked up and noticed the Provos flying past. O'Hagan, Twomey, Mallon, God bless those gallant three And Britain she is furious as off our rebels flee But everywhere in Ireland wherever the news is heard The people cheer the Provos and their marvellous flying bird. Wolfhound Ray McAreavey Danny Burns Gogie McCullough Kieran Manning

Provie Birdie - Wolfhound {The Helicopter Song} - YouTube
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