Luyện nghe bài hát The Birmingham Six

Birmingham, 1974, there occurred a murder
Twenty-one people by bombs, Britain reeled in horror
Within three hours the British State the first available scapegoats--
Five Irish men bound for Belfast, to board the boat
And this is their story, very sad, but
Of how six men were falsely imprisoned for something didn't do
And if any should say, "British is the very best in the world"
them, "Well of course it is, for the vested interests it serves"
The men taken 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 condemn the men
Like vultures the police moved in to interrogations
In the how well do you think the men's rights were observed?
The cops thought had the bombers; do you think they kept their judgement reserved?
Does 'innocent till guilty' have any meaning at all
When you're alone in a police house surrounded by being kicked around like a ball
In a windowless room half a dozen detectives were waiting
Billy Power was thrown in, the questions about to begin
He was kicked and hit and punched from all sides, spread-eagled the wall
They kicked him and hit him again, a voice from the said, "Stretch his balls"
Soon after, Billy surrendered, screamed, "I'll tell you anything you want me to say"
Sat in his own excretia, he could hardly speak he in a daze
Whilst cops compiled his statement of how he planted the
threatened him with the treatment again so Billy signed a confession
Thursday night became Friday night, the five men were took to Birmingham
The threats and the continued--a taste of what was to come
Deprived of food and sleep, all of procedure to break the men
Johnny Walker out twice; they untied his hands while he signed his confession
And McIlkenny was threatened with a gun
The cop said it was OK to shoot him, that the officer'd given permission
The cop asked him if he was going to sign, put the gun against his
Playing Russian roulette with a blank; he banged 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 a confession to mass murder
Six men kept in isolation no contact each other
And it weren't until Monday morning that each got a duty solicitor
Still each unbuttoned his shirt to show how he'd been beaten up
The solicitors, filling in aid forms, said there wasn't time and refused to look
The only obvious injury, 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, banners read "Hang the IRA"
The labor government empowered at the rushed through the PTA
In their war on the Irish people the British vengeance
Despite glaring omissions in the so-called the six men hadn't a chance
The judge dismissed claims, said it would've meant there'd been a conspiracy
Between fifteen from two different forces, as if it was an impossibility
The police in fact became heroes, got their promotion and medals
The six men got life imprisonment and fifteen years on still in jail
The men protested their innocence but it fell mainly on ears
They wanted to bring the policemen to trial, the appeal took years
Lord Denning dismissed their case out of hand, saying "These cannot go on"
he really meant was the State machine could never admit it's done wrong
Another six years, another appeal, another set of
To uphold the original convictions as safe and
For if it ever gets out that the State judges wrong, well what would people
We'd say, "We know who are enemies are now", and we'd form our own IRA
Oh let me tell a story, sad, but true
Of how six men were falsely imprisoned for they didn't do
And if any should say, "British justice is the very in the world"
Tell them, "Well of it is, for the vested interests it serves"
For as long as we remain ignorant they'll fight war against Ireland
For as long as we remain silent they'll imprison any want
For as long as we our eyes shut they'll continue to contain us
For as long as we remain passive they'll trample us into the
Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Richard McIlkenny, Johnny Walker, Hunter, and Billy Power
Still fighting for their freedom fifteen years on
spirits shall remain when our State is dead
When our is dead
When our State is and gone