《Magdalene Laundry(Live at The Point， 2006)》歌词

[00:00:00] Magdalene Laundry - Christy Moore

[00:00:58] Joni was an unmarried girl

[00:01:03] Just turned twenty-seven

[00:01:05] When they sent her to the sisters

[00:01:07] For the way men looked at her

[00:01:14] Branded as a jezebel

[00:01:16] She knew she was not bound for Heaven

[00:01:20] She'd been cast in shame

[00:01:22] Into the Magdalene laundries

[00:01:28] Most girls went there pregnant

[00:01:32] Some by their own fathers

[00:01:36] Bridget got her belly

[00:01:38] From the parish priest

[00:01:42] They’re trying to get things white as snow

[00:01:46] All of those woe-begotten-daughters

[00:01:50] In the steaming stains

[00:01:51] Of the Magdalene laundries

[00:01:58] Prostitutes and destitutes

[00:02:01] And temptresses like Joni--

[00:02:05] Fallen women--

[00:02:06] Sentenced into dreamless drudgery

[00:02:13] Why do they call this heartless place

[00:02:17] Our Lady of Charity Of charity

[00:02:27] These bloodless brides of Jesus

[00:02:30] If they could just once glimpse their groom

[00:02:34] They'd drop their stones concealed behind their rosaries

[00:02:42] They wilt the grass they walk upon

[00:02:45] They leech the light out of a room

[00:02:49] They'd like to wash those girls down the drains

[00:02:52] Of the Magdalene laundries

[00:02:57] Peg O'Connell died today she was a cheeky girl

[00:03:02] They just stuffed her in a hole

[00:03:04] Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring

[00:03:12] Joni thinks she’ll die there too and that they'll tramp her into the dirt

[00:03:19] Like some lame bulb that never will bloom

[00:03:22] When the springtime comes When the springtime comes

[00:03:29] When the springtime comes When the springtime comes