Chorus: Great and glorious Saint Patrick,
Pray for your dear children,
Great and glorious Saint Patrick,
Hearken to the prayers of your children.
- Hibernia’s champion saint all hail,
With fadeless glory crowned.
The offspring of your ardent zeal,
This day your praise shall sound. - Borne on the wings of charity,
To Erin’s coast you flew,
Bade Satan from her valleys flee,
And his dark shrines O’erthrew. - Wondering thro’ errors gloomy right,
Our sires did lose their way.
You cheer’d their hearts with heav’nly night,
With truth’s consoling ray. - Oh what a harvest crown your toil,
The earth long curs’d was blessed,
Each lovely virtue graced its soil,
The sinners’ heart find rest.