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 agai^Dn For ^Gin the town of Belfast I spent^C 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 li^Dfe But ^Gall my young ambitions met with ^Cbitterness and ^Ghate I soon ^Cfound myself ^Ginside a prison ^Dgate

Chorus

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