Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Great Hunger, artist - Cruachan. Album song The Morrigan's Call, in the genre Фолк-метал
Date of issue: 27.11.2006
Record label: AFM
Song language: English
The Great Hunger |
We are alone in this cursed land, left to die like starving dogs |
Our crops have failed us yet again; |
nothing grows in this desolate bog |
I hold my daughter in my arms. |
She is too weak to stand or walk |
Her face is gaunt, her belly empty; |
she cannot see, she cannot talk |
What money I had has all been spent, on bread and milk and bloody rent |
They take from us all that we have, these bastards that from Hell were sent |
My wife is dead. |
My home is lost, all around me dead and dying |
I grip my child, I hold her tight. |
I must go on, I must keep trying |
To the harbour is where I plan to go, to escape the land I love so dear |
The English are the rulers here. |
They eat their fill. |
The have no fear |
I look to the heavens and shout aloud «What has poor Ireland done?» |
The world looks on and sees us starve, dying one by one |
My strength has failed, I can’t go on. |
Beside my daughter I lay |
Some bread or corn could save her life. |
All I can do is pray |
I hold her hand and wipe a tear as I watch a new day dawn |
My daughter seems so peaceful now; |
to heaven she is gone |