Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

Once upon a time were
Irish Ways and Laws
Villages of blood
Waking to the
Waking to the

Then the came around (1)
Turned us up and turned us
Started building and towns
They to change our living
to change our living

Cromwell and his soldiers (2)
Started centuries of
But could not make us turn (3)
We are a flowing
a river flowing

Again, the soldiers came
our houses stole our grain
Shot the farmers in their
Working for
for a living

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

Today the struggle on
I wonder I live so long
To see the gates being up (5)
To a and their freedom
A people and their

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

(1)
The first documented Viking took place in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman invasion in 1170 the would play an important
in Ireland, both politically and economically. They created trade
routes, founded kingdoms, and the first towns in Ireland,
Dublin, Cork and Limerick.

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in August at the head of a
huge army, by May 1650 he had crushed in all but the West.
(By 1652 the population had fallen to .7 m. In 1641 it had
1.5 m. By 1660 .5 m cattle were being exported annually to
England.)

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

(4)
Since the first invasion in 1170

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