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