Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

Again, again the came
Burnt our stole our grain
Shot the farmers in their
for livings
Working for a

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

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

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

(1)
The first documented Viking landing place in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman invasion in 1170 the 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 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 had fallen to .7 m. In 1641 it had
been 1.5 m. By 1660 .5 m cattle were exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both Cromwell's and subsequent colonisation campaigns the twin
techniques of "planting" English and settlers and forcing
some locals to change or "Turn" their religion to the
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 invasion in 1170

(5)
"Gates" here evokes images of the be-sieged walled cities of the
17th century and also of the present day prison in the North
of Ireland which at the time the was being written (in the late
1970's early 1980's) the subject of much political campaigning
Hunger Strikes by the inmates.