[00:23.74]I was an unmarried girl
[00:27.39]Id just turned twenty-seven
[00:29.22]
[00:31.30]When they sent me to the sisters
[00:33.81]
[00:34.31]For the way men looked at me
[00:36.64]
[00:39.54]Branded as a jezebel
[00:41.30]
[00:41.80]I knew I was not bound for heaven
[00:45.01]
[00:46.02]Id be cast in shame
[00:47.84]Into the magdalene laundries
[00:51.74]
[00:59.61]Most girls come here pregnant
[01:01.50]
[01:03.57]Some by their own fathers
[01:05.84]
[01:08.61]Bridget got that belly
[01:09.83]By her parish priest
[01:12.10]
[01:15.18]Were trying to get things white as snow
[01:17.69]All of us woe-begotten-daughters
[01:21.41]
[01:22.04]In the streaming stains
[01:23.92]Of the magdalene laundries
[01:27.96]
[01:35.56]Prostitutes and destitutes
[01:37.89]
[01:39.27]And temptresses like me
[01:41.28]
[01:43.43]Fallen women
[01:44.75]Sentenced into dreamless drudgery
[01:48.33]
[01:51.49]Why do they call this heartless place
[01:54.14]Our lady of charity
[01:55.84]
[01:57.79]Oh charity!
[01:59.11]
[02:07.23]These bloodless brides of jesus
[02:09.44]If they had just once glimpsed their groom
[02:13.72]Then theyd know, and theyd drop the stones
[02:16.86]Concealed behind their rosaries
[02:19.69]
[02:23.21]They wilt the grass they walk upon
[02:25.21]
[02:25.71]They leech the light out of a room
[02:28.16]
[02:29.79]Theyd like to drive us down the drain
[02:31.80]At the magdalene laundries
[02:35.67]
[02:43.53]Peg oconnell died today
[02:45.51]
[02:46.83]She was a cheeky girl
[02:48.35]A flirt
[02:49.04]They just stuffed her in a hole
[02:50.84]
[02:51.65]Surely to God youd think at least some bells should ring
[02:55.93]
[02:59.26]One day Im going to die here too
[03:02.05]And theyll plant me in dirtthe
[03:04.25]
[03:07.39]Like some lame bulb
[03:08.58]That never blooms come any spring
[03:12.58]
[03:14.27]Not any spring
[03:15.27]
[03:41.78]No, not any spring
[03:43.35]
[03:50.27]Not any spring