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You can’t try to
reconcile the treatment o’er the years
Your bloody fist is tarnished with a thousand Irish tears
You see us like the dogs that roam the streets of London town
You create the mongrel – no, no, no we’ll not lie down
Another vote was
taken, not a single mind was changed
A clear-eyed recognition of the pain
When the motherland’s forsaken you, no loyalty remains
Beware your foe when desperation reigns
CHORUS
Another law to strip
our pride, another we’ll defy
The truth behind a shallow Saxon lie
You took our crops and ate your fill, then watched our children die
Then told the world we’d lost our will to try
CHORUS
All hail the absent
landlord, his future’s bright and gay
His eyes ignore the misery and dismay
Cast off the peasant tenants for the rent they cannot pay
Good riddance, go and find Amerikay
CHORUS
A wound that’s
always open, it has no chance to heal
It bleeds the pride and dignity they steal
When you feel the shackles tighten and you fear your fate is sealed
The fight to live will surely be revealed
CHORUS
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