Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

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

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

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

upon a time there was
Irish Ways and Laws
Villages of Irish
Waking to the
Waking to the

(1)
The first documented Viking took place in 795. Until the
Anglo-Norman in 1170 the Vikings would play an important
role in Ireland, both politically and economically. created trade
routes, kingdoms, and built the first towns in Ireland,
Dublin, Cork and Limerick.

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in August at the head of a
huge army, by May 1650 he had crushed in all but the West.
(By 1652 the Irish population had to .7 m. In 1641 it had
been 1.5 m. By .5 m cattle were being exported annually to
England.)

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

(4)
Since the first English in 1170

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