[00:00.00] 作词 : Dempsey Damien Jude Patrick
[00:01.00] 作曲 : Dempsey Damien Jude Patrick
[00:25.83]I sing the song of the colony
[00:26.64]How many years and you're still not free
[00:30.15]And your mother cries and you ask god why
[00:38.22]Greed is the knife and the scars run deep
[00:42.00]How many races with much reason to weep
[00:45.66]And your children cry
[00:49.41]And you ask god why
[00:51.03]Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town
[00:57.39]The TB came and killed her family all around
[01:01.14]Population booms
[01:04.89]Eleven in two rooms
[01:09.33]Katie she came from down Townsend street
[01:13.26]Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet
[01:16.80]1916 came
[01:20.43]They played the patriots game
[01:25.02]Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats
[01:28.92]Tenement slums and infested with rats
[01:32.40]Sleeping on damp straw
[01:36.12]Trying not to break the law
[01:40.80]Thomas, he came from Kilmaine in Mayo
[01:44.79]Semi starvation was the only life you'd know
[01:48.60]In a two room shack
[01:51.90]Then jailed in Letterfrack
[01:53.43]I look to the east, I look to the west
[02:47.76]To the north and the south, and I'm not too impressed
[02:51.60]Time after time
[02:53.37]After crime after crime
[02:55.02]They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered
[02:59.55]Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name
[03:03.33]So he could take the blame if it's not all a game
[03:07.68]With bible in one hand and a sword in the other
[03:11.04]They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers
[03:15.69]And fathers, and sisters and brothers
[03:18.51]With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art
[03:22.62]Way of life and culture
[03:24.63]Tribal in structure
[03:26.43]We had a civilisation
[03:28.50]When they were still neanderthal nations
[03:31.41]We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia
[03:36.33]Aboriginal Australia
[03:38.37]The African people with their history so deep
[03:42.27]And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap
[03:46.83]You came from Germany, from France, from England
[03:50.13]And from Spain
[03:51.24]From Belgium and from Portugal
[03:53.34]You all done much the same
[03:55.26]You took what was not yours
[03:57.06]Went against your own bible
[03:59.31]You broke your own laws
[04:00.87]Just to out do the rival
[04:02.76]But did you ever apologize
[04:05.16]For the hundreds and millions of lives
[04:07.14]You destroyed and terrorised
[04:09.15]Or have you never realized
[04:11.04]Did you never feel shame
[04:12.75]For what was done in your country's name
[04:15.36]And find out who's to blame and why they were so inhumane
[04:18.99]And still they teach you in your school
[04:21.06]About those glorious days of rule
[04:23.16]And how it's your destiny to be
[04:25.35]Superior to me
[04:27.15]But if you've any kind of mind
[04:29.40]You'll see that all human kind
[04:31.59]Are the children of this earth
[04:33.66]And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out
[05:03.24]You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:05.67]You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:14.01]You'll never kill our will to be free, to be free
[05:16.59]Inside our minds we hold, hold the key