Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

Again, the soldiers came
Burnt our houses stole our
Shot the farmers in fields
Working for
for a living

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

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

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

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

(2)
Oliver landed in Ireland in August 1649 at the head of a
huge army, by May 1650 he had opposition in all but the West.
(By 1652 the Irish 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 campaigns used the
techniques of "planting" English and settlers and forcing
some locals to change or "Turn" their religion to the
faith. So here he the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo both
the image of the unbowed Irish peasant and a metaphor for
History flowing a un-turnable river.

(4)
the first English invasion in 1170

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