《Joe Mcdonnell》歌词

[00:00:00] Joe McDonnell - Irish Songs

[00:00:16] Oh me name is Joe McDonnell from

[00:00:21] Belfast town I came

[00:00:25] That city I will never see again

[00:00:33] For in the town of Belfast

[00:00:37] I spent many happy days

[00:00:42] I love that town in oh so many ways

[00:00:49] For it's there I spent

[00:00:51] My childhood and found for me a wife

[00:00:58] I then set out to make for her a life

[00:01:06] But all my young ambitions met with bitterness and hate

[00:01:15] I found myself inside a prison gate

[00:01:23] And you dare to call me a terrorist

[00:01:27] While you looked down your gun

[00:01:31] When I think of all the deeds that you had done

[00:01:39] You plundered many nations divided many lands

[00:01:48] You had terrorised

[00:01:50] Their peoples you ruled with an iron hand

[00:01:56] And you brought this reign of terror to my land

[00:02:13] Through those many months internment

[00:02:17] In the Maidstone and the Maze

[00:02:22] I thought about my land throughout those days

[00:02:29] Why my country was divided

[00:02:33] Why I was now in jail

[00:02:38] Imprisoned without crime or without trial

[00:02:46] And though I love my country

[00:02:50] I am not a bitter man

[00:02:54] I've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand

[00:03:03] So then one fateful morning

[00:03:07] I shook bold freedom's hand

[00:03:12] For right or wrong I'd try to free my land

[00:03:19] And you dare to call me a terrorist

[00:03:23] While you looked down your gun

[00:03:27] When I think of all the deeds that you had done

[00:03:36] You plundered many nations divided many lands

[00:03:44] You had terrorised

[00:03:46] Their peoples you ruled with an iron hand

[00:03:52] And you brought this reign of terror to my land

[00:04:09] Then one cold October morning trapped in a lion's den

[00:04:18] I found myself in prison once again

[00:04:26] I was committed to

[00:04:28] The H blocks for fourteen years or more

[00:04:34] On the Blanket the conditions they were poor

[00:04:43] Then a hunger strike

[00:04:45] We did commence for the dignity of man

[00:04:52] It seemed to me that no one gave a damn

[00:04:59] Over now

[00:05:00] I'm a saddened man

[00:05:03] I've watched my comrades die

[00:05:08] If only people cared or wondered why

[00:05:16] And you dare to call me a terrorist

[00:05:20] While you looked down your gun

[00:05:24] When I think of all the deeds that you had done

[00:05:33] You plundered many nations divided many lands

[00:05:41] You terrorised

[00:05:43] Their peoples ruled with an iron hand

[00:05:49] And you brought this reign of terror to my land

[00:06:06] May God shine on you Bobby Sands

[00:06:11] For the courage you have shown

[00:06:14] May your glory and your name be widely known

[00:06:22] And Francis Hughes and Ray McCreesh

[00:06:27] Who died unselfishly

[00:06:31] And Patsy O Hara next in line is me

[00:06:39] And those who lie behind me may

[00:06:43] You're courage be the same

[00:06:48] And I pray to God my life is not in vain

[00:06:56] Over sad and bitter was the year of 1981

[00:07:04] When then think

[00:07:06] And we have lost and nothing's won