Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

Again, again the soldiers
Burnt our houses our grain
Shot the farmers in their
for livings
Working for a

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

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

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

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

(2)
Oliver Cromwell in Ireland in August 1649 at the head 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 being exported annually to
England.)

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

(4)
Since the first English invasion in

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