Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

Cromwell and his soldiers (2)
centuries of shame
But they not make us turn (3)
We are a flowing
a river flowing

Again, again the came
our houses stole our grain
Shot the farmers in fields
for livings
Working for a

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

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

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

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

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in August 1649 at the of a
army, by May 1650 he had crushed opposition 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 cattle were exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both Cromwell's and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the
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 both
the image of the unbowed Irish peasant and a for Irish
History like a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the English invasion in 1170

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