Best/worst songs about the Northern Irish conflict
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Take me home to Mayo, across the Irish sea
Home to dear old Mayo, where once I roamed so free
Take me home to Mayo, and let my body lie
Home at last in Mayo, beneath the Irish sky.
My name is Michael Gaughan, from Ballina I came
I saw my people sufferin´ and I swore to break their chains
I took the boat to England, prepared to fight or die
Far away from Mayo, beneath an Irish sky.
My body cold and hungry, in Parkhurst Jail I lie
For the loving of my country, on hunger strike I´ll die
I have just one last longing, I pray you´ll not deny
Take my body home to Mayo, beneath the Irish sky.
i learnt this as a kid, my dad got a kick out of us singing it...
Home to dear old Mayo, where once I roamed so free
Take me home to Mayo, and let my body lie
Home at last in Mayo, beneath the Irish sky.
My name is Michael Gaughan, from Ballina I came
I saw my people sufferin´ and I swore to break their chains
I took the boat to England, prepared to fight or die
Far away from Mayo, beneath an Irish sky.
My body cold and hungry, in Parkhurst Jail I lie
For the loving of my country, on hunger strike I´ll die
I have just one last longing, I pray you´ll not deny
Take my body home to Mayo, beneath the Irish sky.
i learnt this as a kid, my dad got a kick out of us singing it...
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
on a related note, zombie may be a fucking piece of toss, but i ahve a strange soft spot for two of their tunes, daffodil lament and ode to my family. i know, i know 
i remember an interview with therapy? where they chucked a mental cos someone asked them why they hadn't written any songs about the "troubles" and i think the retort was, look, we wrote a song called potato junkie, isn't that irish enough for you...
i remember an interview with therapy? where they chucked a mental cos someone asked them why they hadn't written any songs about the "troubles" and i think the retort was, look, we wrote a song called potato junkie, isn't that irish enough for you...
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
At some of the live shows, they had a balaclava clad opening act/joke boyband (presumably the band themselves) called New Kids In The Block and they performed boyband tunes with extremely tenuous NI themes like I Want You Back etc.butchersapron said:
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
starfish said:
If we're talking SLF and "the troubles" I'd go for
1) Johnny was...
2) Wasted Life
3) Suspect Device
4) Straw Dogs
5) Alternative Ulster
cathal marcs
Well-Known Member
Idris2002 said:
Also inLA is easier to say as Ray Collins did in inLA freedom fighters song.
For me Paddy McGuigan- Freedoms Walk although the Katleen Largey version is my fave or Joe McDonnell.
Paul McCartneys Give Ireland back to the Irish. Or John Lennons Sunday Bloody Sunday the 'repatriate to Britain all they who call it home'
cathal marcs said:Paul McCartneys Give Ireland back to the Irish. Or John Lennons Sunday Bloody Sunday the 'repatriate to Britain all they who call it home'
you are taking the piss surely?
if not then i demand you saw off your ears and have them buried in concrete with witnesess present - those are two of the most cringeworthy dirges that have ever been committed to tape in the history of the world ever....
eric bogle's 'my youngest son came home today'
My youngest son came home today
His friends marched with him all the way
The flutes and drums beat out the time
As in his box of polished pine
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
My youngest son came home today
My youngest son was a fine young man
With a wife, a daughter and a son
A man he would have lived and died
Till by a bullet sanctified
Now he's a saint or so they say
They brought their saint home today
Above the narrow Belfast streets
An Irish sky looks down and weeps
On children's blood in gutters spilled
For dreams of freedom unfulfilled
As part of freedom's price to pay
My youngest son came home today
My youngest son came home today
His friends marched with him all the way
The flutes and drums beat out the time
As in his box of polished pine
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
My youngest son came home today
And this time he's home to stay
My youngest son came home today
His friends marched with him all the way
The flutes and drums beat out the time
As in his box of polished pine
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
My youngest son came home today
My youngest son was a fine young man
With a wife, a daughter and a son
A man he would have lived and died
Till by a bullet sanctified
Now he's a saint or so they say
They brought their saint home today
Above the narrow Belfast streets
An Irish sky looks down and weeps
On children's blood in gutters spilled
For dreams of freedom unfulfilled
As part of freedom's price to pay
My youngest son came home today
My youngest son came home today
His friends marched with him all the way
The flutes and drums beat out the time
As in his box of polished pine
Like dead meat on a butcher's tray
My youngest son came home today
And this time he's home to stay
fishfingerer
sultan of cringe
The 'tree' represents loyalist intransigience and its many branches of bigotry while 'mummy' is socialism, depicted in feminised form in order to maximise its appeal to the infantile paisleyite mind.Utopia said:Bewitched - C'est la vie
"I said hey boy sittin in your tree
Mummy always wants you to come for tea
Don't be shy, straighten up your tie
Get down from your tree house sittin' in the sky "
Says it all really!
That is fucking shite! Mind you I admire your honesty. butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That's exactly what his record company bosses said when he presented them with it for the first time.
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
I was chatting to a mate from Belfast on Tuesday night about a mutual friend of ours who's the sound engineer at a venue in that ity. According to aforesaid mutual friend, if anybody puts it to SLF that they are playing the nostalgia circuit these days, they'll deny it on the grounds that they're still bringing out new material. However, nobody else believes this, as apparently they'll play about three songs from the new album before everybody in the audeince starts insisting on Alternative Ulster....
DeadManWalking
Active Member
Simple Minds - Belfast Child (by far the greatest! )
Christy Moore recorded quite a few songs that were written by Bobby Sands (one of the hunger strikers)
)Christy Moore recorded quite a few songs that were written by Bobby Sands (one of the hunger strikers)
DeadManWalking
Active Member
Any by Rev Elvis Paisley?
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