Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

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

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

Today the carries on
I wonder will I live so
To see the gates opened up (5)
To a people and their
A and their freedom

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

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

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in August 1649 at the of a
huge army, by May 1650 he had opposition 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)
Cromwell's and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the twin
techniques of "planting" English and settlers and forcing
some locals to change or "Turn" their to the Protestant
faith. So he uses the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo both
the image of the unbowed Irish and a metaphor for Irish
History flowing like a river.

(4)
the first English invasion in 1170

(5)
"Gates" here evokes both of the be-sieged walled cities 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) the subject of much political campaigning
Hunger Strikes by the inmates.