IN TRIBUTE TO THE TEN MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES ON HUNGERSTRIKE

O' my 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.


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


Though those many months internment in the
Maidstone and the Maze
I thought about my land thought those days
Why my country was divided
Why I was now in jail
Imprisoned without cause or without trial.
And although I love my country
I am not a bitter man
I have seen cruelty and injustice at first hand.
Then one fateful morning I shook bold freedom's hand
For right or wrong I tried to free my land.


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One cold October morning I was trapped in a lions 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 seems to me that no one gave a dame
but now I am a saddened man I've watched my comrades die
if only people cared or wondered why.


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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 you died unselfishly
And Patsy O'Hara and next in line is me
And all who lie behind me may your courage be the same
And I pray to God my life is not in vain.

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

Oh but sad and bitter was the year of 1981 For everything I lost and nothing won.



BOBBY SANDS MP

They gave me for home a narrowness cell
and stolen my heart and my destiny
they said I am a dangerous man
something who never will tell
They tore my body and tortured my brain
and made it the same as the others
and when someone arrives at the end of his life
there are fewer problems tha yesterday

Rest in your heart, Bobby Sands

I dreamed of my mountains, my valleys, my lakes
I dreamed of my sisters and brothers
I dreamed of white houses and children in the
streets and old men in the pubs who were singing
Brits think that God made a mistake
to give that green land to the Irish
and so for eight hundreed years they tried
to put everything in the right way

Rest in your heart, Bobby Sands
They clsoed here my body but don't close my words
they can't dash my hope in the future
they trapped in maze only one Bobby Sands
but there are a lot of me in Ireland
the people are tired of seeing in the street
the R.U.C. soldiers giving an order
the people still ask why you are here
what do you want from Irish land

Rest in your heart, Bobby Sands

I chose death only to survive
but I have nothing to repent of
I chose to run along worring road
take me away nearly my God
And if you hear someone called Bobby Sands
remember he's one of the many
that fight for his land, his people, his God
in that hell called Northern Ireland

Rest in your heart, Bobby Sands



THE TEN MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES ON HUNGERSTRIKE

Bobby Sands
Patsy O'Hara
Raymond McCreesh
Francis Hughes
Kevin Lynch
Joe McDonnell
Kieran Doherty
Martin Hurson
Thomas McElwee
Michael Devine

ALWAYS REMEMBERED


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