Tom Williams (Free at Last) - The Irish Brigade

On the second of September, 1942

At the age of nineteen years

The tenant, Tom Williams

Belfast brigade of the Irish Republican Army

Was hanged at Cromlin Road gaol

Not satisfied with having taken the life

Of this brave young Irish soldier

The British authorities buried his body in an unmarked grave

Within the prison walls

Almost sixty years of protest passed

Before the British government finally relented

And released the remains of this Irish patriot

Tom Williams was finally laid to rest

By his friends, family, and former comrades

On the nineteenth of January

In the year 2000

And now lies at peace in his mother’s grave

Close beside Ireland’s honoured dead

In Belfast’s Republican Plot

Time goes past as years roll onward

Still fresh in my memory I will keep

Of that night in Belfast prison

Unashamedly I saw men weep