{"id":3139,"date":"2016-07-23T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=3139"},"modified":"2016-07-23T21:16:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T01:16:02","slug":"lyrics-sultana-aunt-bridie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=3139","title":{"rendered":"lyrics: sultana &#8211; aunt bridie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>cd:\u00a0Sultana<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>track 1: Aunt Bridie<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Aunt Bridie never married<br \/>\n85 years on her own<br \/>\nShe passed last Easter Sunday<br \/>\nAnd the sadness filled our home<br \/>\nShe was the first one in our family<br \/>\nTo \u201ccome over\u201d on her own<br \/>\nShe was the strongest woman<br \/>\nI have ever known<\/p>\n<p>When the wake was over<br \/>\nAnd the sorrow work began<br \/>\nSorting through her keepsakes<br \/>\nWith a heavy heart in hand<br \/>\nFrom a battered leather suitcase<br \/>\nWe found underneath her bed<br \/>\nCame a former life<br \/>\nThat our Aunt Bridie led<\/p>\n<p>Newspaper clippings<br \/>\nGrown frail and brown with age<br \/>\nA younger Bridie Halpin<br \/>\nRose up from every page<br \/>\nIn an old detention order<br \/>\nDated 1923<br \/>\nAunt Bridie in Kilmainham Gaol<br \/>\nThe vision staggered me<\/p>\n<p>Aunt Bridie, Aunt Bridie<br \/>\nWas a rebel in her time<br \/>\nShe fought for her ould Ireland<br \/>\nWhen freedom was a crime<br \/>\nAunt Bridie, Aunt Bridie<br \/>\nNew things have come to light<br \/>\nYou\u2019ve opened up<br \/>\nMy innocent eyes tonight<br \/>\nYou\u2019ve opened up<br \/>\nMy innocent eyes tonight<\/p>\n<p>Every piece of paper<br \/>\nEvery photo weaved a tale<br \/>\nA tattered constitution<br \/>\nAnd a journal from the Gaol<br \/>\nIt told of prison comrades<br \/>\nThat were just as brave and strong<br \/>\nWho had fought there<br \/>\nRight beside her all along<\/p>\n<p>Lashing out her anger<br \/>\nAt the raiding Black and Tans<br \/>\nFrustration with the men folk<br \/>\nWho refused her helping hand<br \/>\nSo many felt the women<br \/>\nHad no place there in the fight<br \/>\nBut Bridie loved her country<br \/>\nAnd she would not be denied<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>All my history lessons<br \/>\nWatered down the tyrant\u2019s rule<br \/>\nIgnoring all the troubles<br \/>\nIt was never taught in school<br \/>\nBut my new teacher spoke to me<br \/>\nSo clearly from the grave<br \/>\nThe sacrifice and passion<br \/>\nThat she gave<\/p>\n<p>Everything I read that night<br \/>\nAnd will always hold so dear<br \/>\nThe words that closed her journal<br \/>\nAre the words the world should hear<br \/>\nFar Better be a rebel grave<br \/>\nWith no cross or stone or name<br \/>\nThan a treaty with the ugly crown<br \/>\nThe sorrow and the shame<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2016 All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nDulahan Music<br \/>\nWords &amp; Music by Kyle Aughe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cd:\u00a0Sultana track 1: Aunt Bridie Aunt Bridie never married 85 years on her own She passed last Easter Sunday And the sadness filled our home She was the first one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3132,"parent":3123,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3139","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3139\/revisions\/3141"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}