The first and second verses were re-written in 2016 by 'Tintean' a Kerry-based folk group, to provide a more factual and historically correct depiction of events.
A sudden crash, and in the sea, they went to meet their doom Three Irish lads lay dying there, just like their hopes so grand They could not give the signal now from lonely Banna Strand.
Up came a British ship and spoke, 'No Germans reach the shore; You are our Empire's enemy, and so we bid you stand.
Said he: 'I'm Roger Casement, here upon my native land, I meant to free my countrymen on lonely Banna Strand.'
He's buried in a prison yard, far from his native land And the wild waves sing his Requiem on lonely Banna Strand.