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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1)
The first documented Viking landing took in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman in 1170 the Vikings would play an important
role in Ireland, both politically and economically. They created
routes, kingdoms, and built the first towns in Ireland,
Dublin, Cork 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 and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the twin
techniques of "planting" English and settlers and forcing
some locals to change or "Turn" their to the Protestant
faith. So here he uses the ambiguity of the "turn" to echo both
the image of the Irish peasant and a metaphor for Irish
History flowing a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the English invasion in 1170

(5)
"Gates" here both images of the be-sieged walled cities of the
17th century and also of the 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.