
Date of issue: 14.04.2007
Song language: English
Magdalene Laundries |
I was an unmarried girl |
I’d just turned twenty-seven |
When they sent me to the sisters |
For the way men looked at me Branded as a jezebel |
I knew I was not bound for Heaven |
I’d be cast in shame |
Into the Magdalene laundries |
Most girls come here pregnant |
Some by their own fathers |
Bridget got that belly |
By her parish priest |
We’re trying to get things white as snow |
All of us woe-begotten-daughters |
In the streaming stains |
Of the Magdalene laundries |
Prostitutes and destitutes |
And temptresses like me-- |
Fallen women-- |
Sentenced into dreamless drudgery … |
Why do they call this heartless place |
Our Lady of Charity? |
Oh charity! |
These bloodless brides of Jesus |
If they had just once glimpsed their groom |
Then they’d know, and they’d drop the stones |
Concealed behind their rosaries |
They wilt the grass they walk upon |
They leech the light out of a room |
They’d like to drive us down the drain |
At the Magdalene laundries |
Peg O’Connell died today |
She was a cheeky girl |
A flirt |
They just stuffed her in a hole! |
Surely to God you’d think at least some bells should ring! |
One day I’m going to die here too |
And they’ll plant me in the dirt |
Like some lame bulb |
That never blooms come any spring |
Not any spring |
No, not any spring |
Not any spring |
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