The Wind is Singing Freedom - Barleycorn

Barleycorn singing The Wind is Singing Freedom, from their 1974 album also called The Wind is Singing Freedom.

The winds are singing freedom
They sing it everywhere
They sing it on the mountainside
And in the city square
And they sing of a new day dawning
When our people will be free
Come and join our song of freedom
Let it ring from sea to sea

In the battered streets of Belfast
Can't you hear the people cry?
For justice long denied them
And their crying fills the sky
But the winds of change are singing
Bringing hope from dark despair
There's a day of justice dawning
You can feel it in the air

Chorus

Too long our people have suffered
In their misery and their tears
And foreign rulers used our land
For about eight hundred years
It's a long road has no turning
And I know some day we'll see
A day of justice dawning
When our people will be free

Chorus

There's a time laid out for laughing
There's a time laid out to weep
There's a time laid out for sowing
And a time laid out to reap
There's a time to love your brother
There's a time when hate must cease
If you sow the seeds of justice
You can reap the fruits of peace

Chorus

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[catalpa]

Great song , I was surprised to read Tommy Makem wrote this.

[machree01]

Tommy Makem was a great songwriter.

[HaulAwayJoe]

Great song written by the one and only Tommy Makem.

[machree01]

Thats right, Devon

[xxxKerrygoldxxx]

Just Magnifecent..

[flemmy1916]

Terrific song !!

[DrummerBoy922]

@catalpa Actually his wife wrote it.

[SGRollingStone]

Does anyone know where I can find the original by Tommy Makem? It doesn't seem to be on youtube.

[kevcel1888]

feel asleep when younger with the barlycorns!! MAGIC

[manusdeburca]

popular song in the GDR.

[MagnersAddict]

Great great song TAL

[manusdeburca]

song was a bit hit in East Germany )which supported us) as opposed to West Germany who was behind Thatcher all the way

[Moeggel3000]

Magnificent! RIP Tommy Makem

[catalpa]

This is one of the best rebel songs ever written and what a band to do it justice but The Barleycorn.Mighty

[weiry1969]

the auld ones are class