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Verse 1
the Song of the Colony
I sing the song of the colony
And you ask God why
the scars run deep
How many races
with much reason to weep
You ask God why
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Annie, she came from Dunleaven town
The TB came and killed her
family all around
downtown Dan Street
Ten in a bed, no shoes on their feet
they played the Patriot game
Tenement slums and
infested with rats
Trying not to break their law
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Thomas he came from Kilmainham,
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Semi -starvation was the only life you'd
Then jailed and let her frack.
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I sang the song of the colony
How many years
and you still were not free
you ask God why
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Greed is the knife and
the scars run deep
How many races
with much reason to weep
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you ask God why
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I look to the east, I look to the west
To the North and the South,
and I'm not too impressed
crime after crime
They raped, robbed, pillaged,
enslaved and murdered
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Well, Jesus Christ was their God,
and they'd done it in His name
So He could take their blame,
if it's not all a game
and the sword in the other
They came to purify my land
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That my Gaelic Irish mothers an d fathers
and sisters and brothers
With our own ancient customs, laws,
Tribal and structure, we had a civilisation
When they were still in the
The Indian in Asia, Aboriginal Australia
their history so deep
And our children still weep
and our lives are still cheap
from England and from Spain
From Belgium, Holland, Portugal,
you're all the much the same
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You took what was not yours,
you went against your own Bible
You broke your own laws
just to outdo the rival
for the hundreds of millions of lives
You destroyed and terrorized
that you never realized
for what was done
in your country's name?
And find out who's to blame
and why they were so inhumane
about those glorious days of rule
How it's your destiny to be superior to me
you'll see that all humankind
Are the children of this earth
And your hate for them
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will chew you up and spit you out
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You'll never kill a will
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You will never kill our will
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to be free, to be free
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Inside our minds we hold, hold the key
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