Luyện nghe bài hát Irish ways and Irish Laws

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1)
The first documented Viking 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, founded kingdoms, and built the first in Ireland,
including Dublin, and Limerick.

(2)
Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in 1649 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 1660 .5 m cattle were exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both Cromwell's and colonisation campaigns used the twin
techniques of "planting" English and settlers 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 metaphor for
flowing like a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the first invasion in 1170

(5)
"Gates" evokes both 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 was being written (in the late
1970's early 1980's) the subject of much political campaigning
including Hunger by the inmates.