Let the People Sing-Wolfe Tones

[ti:Let the People Sing] [ar:Wolfe Tones] [al:The Anthology of Irish Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Let the People Sing - Wolfe Tones [00:14.20]For those who are in love [00:15.87]There's a song that's warm and tender [00:18.25]For those who are oppressed [00:20.06]In song you can protest [00:21.39] [00:22.15]So liberate your minds [00:23.40] [00:24.03]And give your soul expression [00:25.19] [00:25.98]Open up your hearts [00:27.09] [00:27.74]I'll sing for you this song [00:29.78]Come on [00:30.41]Let the people sing their stories and their songs [00:34.43]And the music of their native land [00:36.67] [00:38.29]Their lullabies and battlecries [00:40.59]And songs of hope and joy [00:42.12] [00:42.68]Join us hand in hand [00:44.86] [00:45.40]Everybody [00:45.83] [00:46.46]All across this ancient land [00:49.22] [00:50.64]Throughout the test of time [00:52.54] [00:53.70]It was music that kept their spirits free [00:57.06] [00:57.78]Those songs of yours and of mine [01:00.01] [01:01.71]Back in ancient times [01:02.75] [01:03.44]The bard would tell his stories [01:05.32]Of the heroes of the villain [01:07.08]Of the chieftains in the glen [01:08.36] [01:09.10]Through Elizabethian time [01:10.26] [01:10.96]And Cromwellian war and fury [01:12.95]Put our pipers to the sword [01:14.91]Killed our harpers and our bards [01:16.38] [01:16.99]Come on [01:17.65]Let the people sing their stories and their songs [01:21.08] [01:21.64]And the music of their native land [01:24.01] [01:25.50]Their lullabies and battlecries [01:26.83] [01:27.73]And songs of hope and joy [01:29.09] [01:29.69]Join us hand in hand [01:31.96] [01:33.64]All across this ancient land [01:36.43] [01:37.75]Throughout the test of time [01:39.39] [01:40.85]It was music that kept their spirits free [01:44.12] [01:44.91]Those songs of yours and of mine [01:47.04] [01:48.94]Ireland land of song [01:50.65]Your music lives forever [01:52.57]In its valleys in its mountains [01:54.29]In its hills and in its glens [01:55.76] [01:56.45]Our music did survive [01:57.52] [01:58.32]Through famine and oppression [01:59.58] [02:00.12]To the generations gone [02:01.39] [02:02.11]I'll sing for you this song [02:03.47] [02:04.06]Come on [02:04.78]Let the people sing their stories and their songs [02:08.21] [02:08.82]And the music of their native land [02:11.46] [02:12.85]Their lullabies and battlecries [02:14.90]And songs of hope and joy [02:16.21] [02:16.89]Join us hand in hand [02:18.73] [02:21.10]All across this ancient land [02:23.47] [02:24.79]Throughout the test of time [02:26.53] [02:27.92]It was music that kept their spirits free [02:31.03] [02:32.00]Those songs of yours and of mine