I sing the song of the colony
How many years and you're still not free
And your mother cries and you ask god why
Greed is the knife and the scars run deep
How many races with much reason to weep
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I sing the song of the colony How many years and you're still not free And your mother cries and you ask god why Greed is the knife and the scars run deep How many races with much reason to weep And your children cry And you ask god why
Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town The TB came and killed her family all around Population booms Eleven in two rooms Katie she came from down Townsend street Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet 1916 came They played the patriots game Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats Tenement slums and infested with rats Sleeping on damp straw Trying not to break the law Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo Semi starvation was the only life you'd know In a two room shack Then jailed in Letterfrack
I look to the east, I look to the west To the north and the south, and I'm not too impressed Time after time After crime after crime They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name So he could take the blame if it's not all a game With bible in one hand and a sword in the other They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers And fathers, and sisters and brothers With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art Way of life and culture Tribal in structure We had a civilisation When they were still neanderthal nations We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia Aboriginal Australia The African people with their history so deep And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap You came from Germany, from France, from England And from Spain From Belgium and from Portugal You all done much the same
You took what was not yours Went against your own bible You broke your own laws Just to out do the rival But did you ever apologize For the hundreds and millions of lives You destroyed and terrorised Or have you never realized Did you never feel shame For what was done in your country's name And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane And still they teach you in your school About those glorious days of rule And how it's your destiny to be Superior to me But if you've any kind of mind You'll see that all human kind Are the children of this earth And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out
You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free Inside our minds we hold, hold the key
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The Bush administration was accused of racism for procrastinating for 3 weeks on Hurricane Catriona and 3000 bodies. The British had six years and 1 million corpses during the famine. A tariff on wheat exports from Ireland would have saved them all, or getting id of the tariff on American imports of corn. But no, our lives were not worth it. Point this out today to a Brit and you are considered a "radical". At least the Germans had th decency to apollogise
People use the term colonisation as if it were some kind of favour or remedy given by so-called superiors to so-called inferiors. Make no mistake it was attempted genocide in Ireland, America North and South, Africa, Aisa and elsewhere, perpetrated as ever by the ruling classes. It continues today in places like Palestine, Iraq and Afganistan, where the media would have you believe it's some sort of goodwill intervention to help those 'poor' people.
This is an incredibly intense, passionate, and great song. At the same time, if the English and Germans hadn't colonized Cherokee land, I wouldn't exist.
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Tig an teanga! Bí ag caint as an teanga. Gaeilge abú!
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