
Date of issue: 22.09.2003
Record label: Charcoal
Song language: English
There Were Roses |
My song for you this evening |
It’s not to make you sad |
Nor for adding to the sorrows |
Of this troubled northern land |
But lately I’ve been thinking |
And it just wont leave my mind |
I’ll tell you of two friends one time |
Who were both good friends of mine |
Isaac he was Protestant |
And Sean was Catholic born |
But it never made a difference |
For the friendship it was strong |
And sometimes in the evening |
When we heard the sound of drums |
We said it wont divide us We will always be as one |
There were roses, roses |
There were roses |
And the tears of a people ran together |
It was on a Sunday morning |
When the awful news came round |
Another killing had been done |
Just outside Newry Town |
We knew that Isaac danced up there |
We knew he liked the band |
But when we heard that he was dead |
We just could not understand |
The fear it filled the countryside |
There was fear in every home |
When late at night a car came |
Prowling round the Ryan Road |
A Catholic would be killed tonight |
To even up the score |
Oh Christ, it’s young MacDonald |
They have taken from the door |
There were roses, roses |
There were roses |
And the tears of a people ran together |
Isaac was my friend he cried |
He begged them with his tears |
But centuries of hatred |
Have ears that do not hear |
An eye for an eye |
It was all that filled their minds |
And another eye for another eye |
Till everyone is blind |
Now I don’t know where the moral is Or where this song should end |
But I wonder just how many wars |
Are fought between good friends |
And those who give the orders |
Are not the ones to die |
It’s Scott and young MacDonald |
And the likes of you and I There were roses, roses |
There were roses |
And the tears of a people ran together |
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