Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

Once upon a time there
Irish and Irish Laws
of Irish blood
Waking to the
Waking to the

Then the Vikings came (1)
Turned us up and us down
Started boats and towns
They to change our living
to change our living

Cromwell and his came (2)
Started of shame
But they not make us turn (3)
We are a flowing
We're a river

Again, again the came
Burnt our houses our grain
the farmers in their fields
Working for
for a living

800 we have been down (4)
The secret of the water
Has the spirit of a man
the pain descending
Above the descending

Today the carries on
I wonder will I live so
To see the gates opened up (5)
To a people and their
A people and their

upon a time there was
Irish Ways and Laws
Villages of Irish
to the morning
Waking to the

(1)
The first Viking landing took place in 795. Until the
invasion in 1170 the Vikings would play an important
role in Ireland, both and economically. They created trade
routes, founded kingdoms, and built the first in Ireland,
Dublin, Cork and Limerick.

(2)
Oliver landed in Ireland in August 1649 at the head of a
huge army, by May 1650 he had opposition in all but the West.
(By 1652 the Irish population had to .7 m. In 1641 it had
been 1.5 m. By .5 m cattle were being exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both Cromwell's and subsequent colonisation used the twin
of "planting" English and Scotish settlers and forcing
some locals to or "Turn" their religion to the Protestant
faith. So here he uses the ambiguity of the "turn" to echo both
the image of the unbowed peasant and a metaphor for Irish
History flowing a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the English invasion in 1170

(5)
"Gates" here evokes both of the be-sieged walled cities of the
17th and also of the present day prison camps in the North
of Ireland at the time the song was being written (in the late
1970's early 1980's) were the of much political campaigning
including Strikes by the inmates.