Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

Again, the soldiers came
Burnt our houses our grain
Shot the in their fields
Working for
for a living

800 years we been down (4)
The of the water 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 opened up (5)
To a people and their
A and their freedom

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

(1)
The first documented Viking landing took in 795. Until the
invasion in 1170 the Vikings would 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)
Cromwell landed in Ireland in August 1649 at the head of a
huge army, by May 1650 he had crushed in all but the West.
(By 1652 the Irish population had fallen to .7 m. In it had
been 1.5 m. By 1660 .5 m were being exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both Cromwell's and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the
techniques of "planting" English and Scotish and forcing
some locals to change or "Turn" their to the Protestant
faith. So here he uses the ambiguity of the "turn" to echo both
the image of the Irish peasant and a metaphor for Irish
flowing like a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the first English in 1170

(5)
"Gates" here evokes both images of the be-sieged cities of the
17th and also of the present 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 of much political campaigning
Hunger Strikes by the inmates.