Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

Cromwell and his came (2)
Started of shame
But they could not make us (3)
We are a river
a river flowing

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

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

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

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

(1)
The documented Viking landing took place 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)
Oliver Cromwell landed in in August 1649 at the head of a
army, by May 1650 he had crushed 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 being exported annually to
England.)

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

(4)
the first English invasion in 1170

(5)
"Gates" here evokes images 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 time the song was written (in the late
1970's early 1980's) were the subject of political campaigning
including Hunger by the inmates.