Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

Once upon a there were
Irish Ways and Irish
of Irish blood
Waking to the
Waking to the

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1)
The first Viking landing took place in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman invasion in the Vikings would play an important
role in Ireland, both politically and economically. They 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 he had crushed opposition in all but the West.
(By the Irish population had fallen to .7 m. In 1641 it had
been 1.5 m. By 1660 .5 m were being exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the twin
techniques of "planting" English and Scotish settlers and
some locals to change or "Turn" their to the Protestant
faith. So here he uses the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo
the image of the unbowed 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 walled of the
century and also of the present day prison camps in the North
of Ireland which at the the song was being written (in the late
1970's early 1980's) were the subject of political campaigning
Hunger Strikes by the inmates.