The Wolfetones - Joe mcdonnell
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THE WOLFE TONES
JOE McDONNELL
This song is about Joe McDonnell, an Irish Republican Volunteer who died in prison
while on hunger strike in 1981, he and his comrades were protesting against
the conditions and the fact that the British were trying to force them to wear
prison uniform when they were POW's. The British government wrongly convicted
them of being terrorists when the terrorists were and still are the British
government who have beign terrorising the Irish since 1167.
Verse 1
O me Gname is Joe McDonnell, from CBelfast town I Gcame
That Ccity I will Gnever see agaiDn
For Gin the town of Belfast I spentC many happy Gdays
I Clove that town in Goh so many Dways
For it's Amthere I Cspent my Amchildhood and Cfound for me a Gwife
I Amthen set out to Cmake for Gher a liDfe
But Gall my young ambitions met with Cbitterness and Ghate
I soon Cfound myself Ginside a prison Dgate
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And you Amdare Ccall me a Amterrorist while Cyou look down your Ggun
When I Amthink of all the Cdeeds that Gyou have Ddone
You had Gplundered many nations divided many lands
You had Cterrorised their Ampeoples you ruled Cwith an iron Dhand
And you Gbrought this reign of Cterror to my Dland