I hope you can help. I really want the lyrics to a song I heard, unfortunately I don't have the name just part of the lyrics, the song is about Bobby Sands..... " And you dare to call me a terrorist........... "You have terrorised the people..........

Hope to hear from someone soon Lisa

-- Lisa Carroll (lcarroll@waterford.ie), November 09, 2001

Answers

That's from "Joe McDonnell" on the album "A Sense of Freedom" by The Wolfe Tones, released in 1983. Written by Brian Warfield.

Found this as the first match for a web search on "And you dare to call me a terrorist". Isn't google great?

[http://www.hungerstrike.org/mcdonnell.htm]:

Lyrics from Wolfe Tones
"A Sense of Freedom" 1983
Author: Brian Warfield

O me name is Joe McDonnell
From Belfast town I came
That city I will never see again
For in the town of Belfast
I spent many happy days
I love that town in oh so many ways
For it's there I spent my childhood
And found for me a wife
I then set out to make for her a life
But all my young ambitions
Met with bitterness and hate
I soon found myself inside a prison gate

Chorus

And you dare to call me a terrorist
While you look down the barrel of your gun
When I think of all the deeds that you had done
You had plundered many nations
Divided many lands
You had terrorised their peoples
You ruled with an iron hand.
And you brought this reign of terror to my land

Through those many months internment
In the Maidstone and the Maze
I thought about my land throughout those days
Why my country was divided, why I was now in jail
Imprisoned without crime or without trial
And though I love my country
I am not a bitter man
I've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand
So then one fateful morning
I shook bold freedom's hand
For right or wrong I'd try to free my land

Chorus

And you dare to call me a terrorist
While you look down the barrel of your gun
When I think of all the deeds that you had done
You had plundered many nations
Divided many lands
You had terrorised their peoples
You ruled with an iron hand.
And you brought this reign of terror to my land

Then one cold October morning
Trapped in a lion's den
I found myself in prison once again
I was committed to the H-blocks
For fourteen years or more
On the Blanket the conditions they were poor
Then a hunger strike we did commence
For the dignity of man
But it seemed to me that no one gave a damn
But now, I'm a saddened man
I've watched my comrades die
If only people cared or wondered why

Chorus

And you dare to call me a terrorist
While you look down your gun
When I think of all the deeds that you had done
You had plundered many nations
Divided many lands
You had terrorised their peoples
You ruled with an iron hand.
And you brought this reign of terror to my land

May God shine on you Bobby Sands
For the courage you have shown
May your glory and your fame be widely known
And Francis Hughes and Ray McCreesh
Who died unselfishly
And Patsy O Hara, and the next in line is me
And those who lie behind me
May you're courage be the same
And I pray to God my life is not in vain
Ah but sad and bitter was the year of 1981
For everything i've lost and nothing's won.


-- Paul Dunne (paul@theunixplace.com), November 09, 2001.

Tiocfaidh ar la sing up the ra

-- fmcg (f2002@hotmail.com), February 08, 2002.