Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Colony, artist - Sharon Shannon. Album song Live at Dolans, in the genre Кельтская музыкаDate of issue: 31.12.2005
Record label: Orchard
Song language: English
Colony |
| I sing the song of the colony |
| How many years and you’re still not free |
| And your mother cries and you ask god why |
| Greed is the knife and the scars run deep |
| How many races with much reason to weep |
| And your children cry |
| And you ask god why |
| Annie, she came from Dunlavin Town |
| The TB came and killed her family all around |
| Population booms |
| Eleven in two rooms |
| Katie she came from down Townsend street |
| Ten in a bed and no shoes on their feet |
| 1916 came |
| They played the patriots game |
| Freddy, he came from the Iveagh flats |
| Tenement slums and infsted with rats |
| Sleeping on damp straw |
| Trying not to break the law |
| Thomas, h came from Kilmaine in Mayo |
| Semi starvation was the only life you’d know |
| In a two room shack |
| Then jailed in Letterfrack |
| I look to the east, I look to the west |
| To the north and the south, and I’m not too impressed |
| Time after time |
| After crime after crime |
| They raped, robbed, pillaged, enslaved and murdered |
| Jesus Christ was their god and they done it in his name |
| So he could take the blame if it’s not all a game |
| With bible in one hand and a sword in the other |
| They came to purify my land of my Gaelic Irish mothers |
| And fathers, and sisters and brothers |
| With our own ancient customs, laws, music, art |
| Way of life and culture |
| Tribal in structure |
| We had a civilization |
| When they were still neanderthal nations |
| We suffer with the Native American, the Indian in Asia |
| Aboriginal Australia |
| The African people with their history so deep |
| And our children still weep and our lives are still cheap |
| You came from Germany, from France, from England |
| And from Spain |
| From Belgium and from Portugal |
| You all done much the same |
| You took what was not yours |
| Went against your own bible |
| You broke your own laws |
| Just to out do the rival |
| But did you ever apologize |
| For the hundreds and millions of lives |
| You destroyed and terrorized |
| Or have you never realized |
| Did you never feel shame |
| For what was done in your country’s name |
| And find out who’s to blame and why they were so inhumane |
| And still they teach you in your school |
| About those glorious days of rule |
| And how it’s your destiny to be |
| Superior to me |
| But if you’ve any kind of mind |
| You’ll see that all human kind |
| Are the children of this earth |
| And your hate for them will chew you up and spit you out |
| You’ll never kill our will to be free, to be free |
| You’ll never kill our will to be free, to be free |
| You’ll never kill our will to be free, to be free |
| Inside our minds we hold, hold the key |