Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in August 1649 at the 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 and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the twin
techniques of "planting" English and Scotish and forcing
some locals to change or "Turn" their to the Protestant
faith. So he uses the ambiguity 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)
the first English invasion in 1170

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