Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

Then the came around (1)
us up and turned us down
Started boats and towns
tried to change our living
tried to our living

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

Again, again the came
our houses stole our grain
Shot the farmers in fields
for livings
Working for a

800 years we have down (4)
The secret of the water
Has kept the of a man
Above the pain
Above the pain

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

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

(1)
The documented Viking landing took place in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman invasion in the Vikings would play an important
role in Ireland, both politically and economically. created trade
routes, founded kingdoms, and built the first in Ireland,
including Dublin, and Limerick.

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

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

(4)
Since the first invasion in 1170

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