Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

Again, again the came
Burnt our houses our grain
Shot the in their fields
for livings
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 so long
To see the being opened up (5)
To a people and their
A people and freedom

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

(1)
The first documented Viking took place in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman invasion in 1170 the Vikings play an important
role in Ireland, politically and economically. They created trade
routes, founded kingdoms, and the first towns in Ireland,
including Dublin, 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 Irish population had 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 colonisation campaigns used the twin
techniques of "planting" English and Scotish and forcing
locals to change or "Turn" their religion to the Protestant
faith. So here he uses the of the term "turn" to echo both
the image of the unbowed Irish peasant and a metaphor for
History like a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the first English in 1170

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