Joe Mcdonnell-Wolfe Tones

[ti:Joe Mcdonnell] [ar:Wolfe Tones] [al:50th Anniversary Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Joe Mcdonnell - Wolfe Tones [00:00.79]Written by：Wolfe Tones [00:00.98]O me name is Joe Mcdonnell [00:03.27] [00:04.59]From bel fast town I came [00:07.04] [00:09.03]That city I will [00:11.86]Never see again [00:13.88] [00:17.61]For in the town of bel fast [00:21.26] [00:21.78]I spent many happy days [00:24.88] [00:26.74]I love that town in oh so many ways [00:31.87] [00:35.58]For it's there I spent my childhood [00:38.96] [00:39.71]And found for me a wife [00:42.69] [00:44.51]I then set out to make [00:47.22] [00:48.24]For her a life [00:49.65] [00:53.50]But all my young ambitions [00:56.64] [00:57.64]Met with bitterness and hate [01:00.49] [01:01.81]I soon found myself inside a prison gate [01:07.02] [01:10.95]And you dare to call me a terrorist [01:14.66] [01:15.23]While you looked down your gun [01:18.62] [01:19.73]When I think of all the deeds [01:23.62]That you had done [01:25.39] [01:28.81]You had plundered many nations [01:32.05] [01:33.44]Divided many lands [01:36.47] [01:37.56]You had terrorized their peoples [01:41.26] [01:41.80]You ruled with an iron hand [01:45.57] [01:46.24]And you brought [01:48.18]This reign of terror to my land [01:52.10] [01:55.25]Through those many months internment [01:58.50] [01:59.79]In the maid stone and the maze [02:02.49] [02:04.58]I thought about my land [02:08.19]Throughout those days [02:09.92] [02:12.90]Why my country was divided [02:16.25] [02:17.66]Why I was now in jail [02:20.73] [02:22.25]Imprisoned without crime or without trial [02:27.71] [02:30.98]And though I love my country [02:34.70] [02:35.41]I'm not a bitter man [02:38.69] [02:39.54]I've seen cruelty [02:41.09] [02:41.74]And injustice at first hand [02:45.69] [02:48.51]So then one fateful morning [02:51.85] [02:53.32]I shook bold freedom's hand [02:56.20] [02:57.79]For right or wrong [03:00.02]I'd try to free my land [03:03.16] [03:06.36]And you dare to call me a terrorist [03:09.94] [03:10.81]While you looked down your gun [03:14.49] [03:15.33]When I think of all the deeds [03:19.05]That you had done [03:20.73] [03:24.42]You had plundered many nations [03:27.81] [03:28.97]Divided many lands [03:31.98] [03:33.30]You had terrorized their peoples [03:36.41] [03:37.29]You ruled with an iron hand [03:40.99] [03:41.57]And you brought [03:43.75]This reign of terror to my land [03:47.73] [03:50.81]Then one cold October morning [03:54.10] [03:55.65]Trapped in a lion's den [03:58.17] [04:00.01]I found myself in prison once again [04:04.75] [04:08.42]I was committed to the h blocks [04:11.94] [04:13.38]For fourteen years or more [04:16.31] [04:17.57]On the blanket the conditions they were poor [04:23.26] [04:26.45]Then a hunger strike [04:28.19] [04:28.73]We did commence for the dignity of man [04:33.74] [04:35.36]But it seemed to me [04:37.12] [04:37.82]That no one gave a d**n [04:40.49] [04:45.13]But now I'm a saddened man [04:47.96] [04:48.91]I've watched my comrades die [04:51.66] [04:53.36]If only people cared or wondered why [04:58.91] [05:01.92]And you dare to call me a terrorist [05:05.51] [05:06.93]While you looked down your gun [05:09.80] [05:11.12]When I think of all the deeds [05:14.66]That you had done [05:16.31] [05:19.57]You had plundered many nations [05:23.42] [05:24.52]Divided many lands [05:27.54] [05:28.61]You had terrorized their peoples [05:32.19] [05:32.86]You ruled with an iron hand [05:37.10]And you brought [05:39.24]This reign of terror to my land [05:43.26] [05:46.51]May God shine on you bobby sands [05:50.34] [05:51.37]For the courage you have shown [05:54.19] [05:55.31]May your glory [05:56.77] [05:57.32]And your fame be widely known [06:01.09] [06:04.26]And Francis Hughes [06:06.77]And ray screenwash who died unselfishly [06:11.70] [06:13.27]And patsy o hare [06:15.59]And the next in line is me [06:18.64] [06:22.05]And those who lie behind me [06:25.46] [06:26.48]May you're courage be the same [06:29.82] [06:30.86]And I pray to God [06:32.65] [06:33.22]My life is not in vain [06:36.81] [06:39.47]Ah but sad [06:41.50]And bitter was the year of 1981 [06:46.92] [06:48.77]For everything I've lost and nothing's won