O K, __ I want to talk a-bout Ire-land,

spe-ci-fi-cally, I want to talk a-bout the fam-ine,

a-bout the fact that there nev-er real-ly was one.

There was no 'fam-ine'.

       Fm9

See I-rish people were on-ly al-lowed to eat po-ta-toes,

Bb9

all of the other food,

meat, fish, vege-ta-bles,

         Fm9

were shipped out of the country un-der armed guard

           Bb9

to Eng-land, while the I-rish peo-ple starved,

Fm9

          and then in the mid-dle of all this,

        Bb9

they gave us mon-ey not to teach our child-ren I-rish,

Fm9

          and so we lost __ our hist-ory

      Bb9

and this is what I think is still hurt-ing me. ____

See, we're like a child that's been bat-tered,

has to drive it-self out of it's head, be-cause it's frightened,

still feels all the pain-ful feel-ings,

but they lose con-tact with the me-mo-ry,

and this leads to mass-ive self-de-struc-tion,

al-co-hol-is-m, drug ad-dic-tion, ___

all des-per-ate at-tempts at run-ning,

and in it's worst form, ___

be-comes ac-tu-al killing.

Fm9

          and if there ev-er is gon-na be heal-ing,

         Bb9

there has to be re-mem-ber-ing, __

and then grieving;

Fm9

          so that the then can be ___ for-giv-ing, ___

         Bb9

there has to be know-ledge, and un-der-stand-ing.

                        Bb9

All the lone-ly peo-ple,

Fm9                                                             Bb9

          where do ___ they all ___ come from? ___

An A-me-ri-can ar-my re-gu-la-tion

says you must-n't kill more than 10 per-cent of a na-tion,

cos' to do so caus-es per-ma-nent 'pys-cho-lo-gi-cal dam-age'

It's not per-ma-nent, but they did-n't know that,

a-ny-way, dur-ing the sup-posed 'fam-ine',

we lost a lot more than 10 per-cent of our nat-ion

through deaths on land, or in ships of e-mi-gra-tion,

but what fi-nal-ly borke us was not star-vation,

but its

Fm9

use in the con-trol-ing of our e-du-ca-tion.

Bb9

Schools go on a-about 'Black For-ty Sev-en',

Fm9

          on and on a-bout 'The Ter-ri-ble Fam-ine,'

     Bb9

but what they don't say is in truth

                             Fm9

there real-ly nev-er was one.

Fm9                          Bb9

          All the lone-ly peo-ple,

Fm9                                                 Bb9

          where do ____ they all __________ come from ?

                                 Bb9

         All the lone-ly peo-ple,

Fm9                                                   Bb9

         Where do ____ they all belong? ___

Fm9

          So lets take a look shall we? _

       Bb9

The high-est sta-tis-tics of child a-buse in the E.E.C.

Fm9

and we say we're a Christ-ian coun-try,

Bb9

         but we've lost con-tact with our hist-ory,

Fm9

See, we use to wor-ship God as a mo-ther __

          Bb9

We're suf-fering from Post Trau-ma-tic Stress Dis-or-der.

Fm9

Look at all our old men in the pubs,

Bb9

         look at all our young peo-ple on drugs,

we used to wor-ship God as mo-ther,

now look at what we're do-ing to each-other.

We've ev-en made kill-ers of our-selves. __

The most child-like trust-ing peo-ple in the U-ni-verse,

and this is what's wrong with us.

Our his-to-ry books, the par-ent fig-ures lied to us.

I see the I-rish _ as a race __

like a child

that ___ got it-self bashed in the face.

Fm9

And if there ev-er is gon-na be heal-ing,

         Bb9

there has to be re-mem-ber-ing, __

and then grieving;

Fm9

        so that the then can be ____ for-giv-ing, __

         Bb9

there has to be know-ledge and un-der-stand-ing.
 

Fm9                          Bb9

          All the lone-ly peo-ple,

Fm9                                                 Bb9

          where do ____ they all __________ come from ?

Fm9                          Bb9

          All the lone-ly peo-ple,

Fm9                                                 Bb9

          where do ____ they all __________ come from ?

Fm7         Gm7 (3 fr)          Fm7          Gm7 (3 fr)

(repeat and fade)