cd: Live at Bainbridge
track 6: Soyer’s Soup
Oh Monsieur Soyer, is your family well tonight?
On your soup, mine cannot survive
Meat flavored water and a biscuit on the side
Can’t keep a working Irishman alive
Half broken families straggle up to join the queue
They have no strength but they’ve no choices too
All the lords and ladies come to watch the paupers feed
So proud of their philanthropic deed
Chorus
Stir up the cauldron; bring the turf to feed the fire
Ignoring all the ingrates ugly ire
Add your brown sugar, turnips, dripping fat and flour
And serve a thousand starving souls an hour
Chorus
Out sail the grain ships, for the port in Liverpool
Make sure those Reformers bellies full
All the gaunt faces watch their lifeline sail away
It’s a debt that your fine kitchen can’t repay
Chorus
Fighting for life
Surviving the night
God save my children and my wife
Fighting for life
Surviving the night
God save my children and my wife
Chorus
Dulahan Music
Written by Kyle Aughe