Текст песни Sinead O`Connor - Irish ways and Irish Laws, слова песни Sinead O`Connor

Текст песни Sinead O`Connor - Irish ways and Irish Laws

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Once upon a time there wereIrish Ways and Irish LawsVillages of Irish bloodWaking to the morningWaking to the morningThen the Vikings came around (1)Turned us up and turned us downStarted building boats and townsThey tried to change our livingtried to change our living Cromwell and his soldiers came (2)Started centuries of shameBut they could not make us turn (3)We are a river flowingWe`re a river flowingAgain, again the soldiers cameBurnt our houses stole our grainShot the farmers in their fieldsWorking for livingsWorking for a living800 years we have been down (4)The secret of the water soundHas kept the spirit of a manAbove the pain descendingAbove the pain descendingToday the struggle carries onI wonder will I live so longTo see the gates being opened up (5)To a people and their freedomA people and their freedomOnce upon a time there wasIrish Ways and Irish LawsVillages of Irish bloodWaking to the morningWaking to the morning Notes(1)The first documented Viking landing took place in 795. Until the Anglo-Norman invasion in 1170 the Vikings would play an important role in Ireland, both politically and economically. They created trade routes, founded kingdoms, and built the first towns in Ireland, including Dublin, Cork and Limerick.(2) Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in August 1649 at the head of a huge army, by May 1650 he had crushed opposition in all but the West.(By 1652 the Irish population had fallen to .7 m. In 1641 it had been 1.5 m. By 1660 .5 m cattle were being exported annually to England.)(3)Both Cromwell`s and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the twin techniques of "planting" English and Scotish settlers and forcing some locals to change or "Turn" their religion to the Protestant faith. So here he uses the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo both the image of the unbowed Irish peasant and a metaphor for Irish History flowing like a un-turnable river.(4)Since the first English invasion in 1170(5) "Gates" here evokes both images of the be-sieged walled cities of the 17th century and also of the present day prison camps in the North of Ireland which at the time the song was being written (in the late 1970`s early 1980`s) were the subject of much political campaigning including Hunger Strikes by the inmates.

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Irish ways and Irish Laws

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