Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

Again, again the came
our houses stole our grain
Shot the in their fields
Working for
for a living

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

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

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

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

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in 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 population had to .7 m. In 1641 it had
been 1.5 m. By 1660 .5 m cattle being exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both Cromwell's and subsequent colonisation campaigns the twin
of "planting" English and Scotish settlers and forcing
some locals to or "Turn" their religion to the Protestant
faith. So here he uses the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo
the image of the unbowed Irish peasant and a for Irish
History flowing a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the English invasion in 1170

(5)
"Gates" here evokes both images of the 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 subject of much campaigning
including Strikes by the inmates.