Joe McDonnell-Irish Songs

[ti:Joe McDonnell] [ar:Irish Songs] [al:St Patrick's Day Songs - 50 Irish Songs - Irish Party Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Joe McDonnell - Irish Songs [00:16.65]Oh me name is Joe McDonnell from [00:21.61]Belfast town I came [00:23.28] [00:25.52]That city I will never see again [00:29.37] [00:33.20]For in the town of Belfast [00:35.97] [00:37.39]I spent many happy days [00:39.82] [00:42.29]I love that town in oh so many ways [00:46.00] [00:49.89]For it's there I spent [00:51.96]My childhood and found for me a wife [00:56.60] [00:58.22]I then set out to make for her a life [01:02.84] [01:06.49]But all my young ambitions met with bitterness and hate [01:13.05] [01:15.47]I found myself inside a prison gate [01:19.37] [01:23.13]And you dare to call me a terrorist [01:26.05] [01:27.27]While you looked down your gun [01:29.71] [01:31.49]When I think of all the deeds that you had done [01:36.56] [01:39.81]You plundered many nations divided many lands [01:46.72] [01:48.18]You had terrorised [01:49.37] [01:50.12]Their peoples you ruled with an iron hand [01:55.02] [01:56.28]And you brought this reign of terror to my land [02:01.54] [02:13.11]Through those many months internment [02:15.66] [02:17.46]In the Maidstone and the Maze [02:19.77] [02:22.20]I thought about my land throughout those days [02:26.42] [02:29.80]Why my country was divided [02:32.45] [02:33.88]Why I was now in jail [02:36.59] [02:38.35]Imprisoned without crime or without trial [02:42.67] [02:46.44]And though I love my country [02:48.81] [02:50.46]I am not a bitter man [02:53.05] [02:54.77]I've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand [02:59.68] [03:03.28]So then one fateful morning [03:05.56] [03:07.24]I shook bold freedom's hand [03:09.90] [03:12.17]For right or wrong I'd try to free my land [03:15.94] [03:19.68]And you dare to call me a terrorist [03:22.20] [03:23.93]While you looked down your gun [03:26.21] [03:27.95]When I think of all the deeds that you had done [03:33.17] [03:36.48]You plundered many nations divided many lands [03:43.04] [03:44.74]You had terrorised [03:46.00] [03:46.81]Their peoples you ruled with an iron hand [03:51.79] [03:52.62]And you brought this reign of terror to my land [03:57.51] [04:09.70]Then one cold October morning trapped in a lion's den [04:16.36] [04:18.63]I found myself in prison once again [04:22.34] [04:26.17]I was committed to [04:28.33]The H blocks for fourteen years or more [04:32.83] [04:34.86]On the Blanket the conditions they were poor [04:40.05] [04:43.07]Then a hunger strike [04:45.18]We did commence for the dignity of man [04:49.51] [04:52.19]It seemed to me that no one gave a damn [04:56.36] [04:59.77]Over now [05:00.08] [05:00.66]I'm a saddened man [05:02.65] [05:03.86]I've watched my comrades die [05:06.71] [05:08.84]If only people cared or wondered why [05:12.59] [05:16.28]And you dare to call me a terrorist [05:19.11] [05:20.37]While you looked down your gun [05:22.82] [05:24.64]When I think of all the deeds that you had done [05:29.86] [05:33.03]You plundered many nations divided many lands [05:39.56] [05:41.29]You terrorised [05:42.73] [05:43.34]Their peoples ruled with an iron hand [05:48.31] [05:49.09]And you brought this reign of terror to my land [05:54.67] [06:06.37]May God shine on you Bobby Sands [06:09.15] [06:11.16]For the courage you have shown [06:12.83] [06:14.90]May your glory and your name be widely known [06:19.01] [06:22.96]And Francis Hughes and Ray McCreesh [06:26.30] [06:27.71]Who died unselfishly [06:29.54] [06:31.48]And Patsy O Hara next in line is me [06:36.21] [06:39.61]And those who lie behind me may [06:43.91]You're courage be the same [06:46.21] [06:48.74]And I pray to God my life is not in vain [06:52.90] [06:56.20]Over sad and bitter was the year of 1981 [07:03.01] [07:04.32]When then think [07:05.01] [07:06.04]And we have lost and nothing's won