Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in August at the head of a
army, by May 1650 he had crushed opposition in all but the West.
(By 1652 the Irish had fallen to .7 m. In 1641 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
locals to change or "Turn" their religion to the Protestant
faith. So he uses the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo both
the of the unbowed Irish peasant and a metaphor for Irish
History like 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 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) were the subject of much political
including Strikes by the inmates.