Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1)
The documented Viking landing took place in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman in 1170 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 in August 1649 at the head of a
huge army, by May 1650 he had crushed in all but the West.
(By 1652 the Irish population had fallen to .7 m. In it had
been 1.5 m. By 1660 .5 m cattle were being annually to
England.)

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

(4)
the first English invasion in 1170

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