Luyện nghe bài hát The Birmingham Six

Birmingham, 1974, there occurred a bloody
Twenty-one people by bombs, Britain reeled in horror
Within three hours the State found the first available scapegoats--
Five Irish men for Belfast, about to board the boat
And this is story, very sad, but true
Of how six men were falsely imprisoned for something didn't do
And if any should say, "British justice is the best in the world"
them, "Well of course it is, for the vested interests it serves"
The men were to Morkham to be tested for explosives
Tests which have since proved ambiguous but were at the time as conclusive
One scientists' word was sufficient to the Irish men
Like vultures the police moved in to interrogations
In the circumstances how do you think the men's rights were observed?
The cops thought they had the do you think they kept their judgement reserved?
Does 'innocent till proven guilty' any meaning at all
When you're alone in a police house by cops being kicked around like a ball
In a dark windowless half a dozen detectives were waiting
Billy Power was thrown in, the serious questions about to
He was kicked and hit and from all sides, spread-eagled against the wall
They kicked him and hit him again, a voice from the said, "Stretch his balls"
Soon after, poor Billy surrendered, screamed, "I'll you anything you want me to say"
Sat in his own excretia, he could speak he remained in a daze
Whilst compiled his statement of how he planted the bombs
They threatened him with the again so Billy signed a confession
Thursday night Friday night, the five men were took back to Birmingham
The and the violence continued--a taste of what was to come
Deprived of and sleep, all part of procedure to break the men
Johnny Walker blacked out twice; they untied his hands while he signed his
And Richard McIlkenny was threatened a gun
The cop said it was OK to shoot him, that the home officer'd given
The cop asked him if he was going to sign, put the gun his head
Playing Russian roulette with a blank; when he McIlkenny thought he was dead
Callaghan, a sixth man, was picked up in Berm and tortured
He, too, hadn't done it but they made him sign a confession to mass
Six men kept in isolation no contact with each
And it weren't until morning that they each got a duty solicitor
Still separate each unbuttoned his shirt to show how he'd been up
The solicitors, in legal aid forms, said there wasn't time and refused to look
The obvious injury, Johnny Walker's black eye in court that day
When he tried to unbotton his shirt all the said, "Let's take him away"
Leland workers staged a walkout, their read "Hang the IRA"
The labor government empowered at the time rushed the PTA
In their war on the Irish people the British vengeance
Despite glaring omissions in the so-called confessions the six men a chance
The judge dismissed their claims, said it would've meant there'd a conspiracy
fifteen officers from two different forces, as if it was an impossibility
The in fact became heroes, got their promotion and victory medals
The six men got life imprisonment and fifteen on they're still in jail
The men protested their innocence but it fell mainly on ears
They wanted to bring the policemen to trial, the took seven years
Lord Denning dismissed their case out of hand, saying "These cannot go on"
What he meant was the State machine could never admit it's done wrong
Another six years, another appeal, another set of
To uphold the original as safe and satisfactory
For if it gets out that the State judges wrong, well what would people say?
say, "We know who are real enemies are now", and we'd form our own IRA
Oh let me tell a story, very sad, but
Of how six men were falsely imprisoned for something they do
And if any should say, "British is the very best in the world"
Tell them, "Well of course it is, for the vested it serves"
For as long as we remain ignorant they'll fight their war Ireland
For as long as we silent they'll imprison any they want
For as long as we keep our eyes they'll continue to contain us
For as as we remain passive they'll trample us into the dust
Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Richard McIlkenny, Johnny Walker, Gerry Hunter, and Billy Power
Still fighting for their freedom long years on
Their spirits shall when our State is dead
When our is dead
When our State is and gone