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I Sing the song of the colony, 
How many years and your still not free, 
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And your mother cries,Oh and 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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And your children cry, Oh and you ask God why. 
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Annie, she came from Dunlaven town, 
The TB came, and k*lled her family all around, 
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Population boomed, livin' in two rooms. 
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Katie she came from down Townsend street, 
Ten in her bed, and no shoes on their feet, 
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1916 came, they played the patriots game. 
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Freddy, he came form the Iveagh flats, 
Tenement slums and infested with rats, 
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Sleepin on damp straw, tryin not to break the law. 
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Thomas he came from Kilmainah Mayo, 
Semi starvation was the only life you know, 
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In a two room shack, then jailed in Letterfrack. 
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I sing the song of the colony, 
How many years and your still not free, 
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And your mother cries, oh and 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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And your children cry, oh and 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 im not too impresed. 
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Time after time after crime after crime, 
They rape, rob, pilage, enslaved, and murdered, 
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Jesus Christ was their God, 
And they done it in his name, 
So he could take the blame if its not all a game, 
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With Bible in one hand,and a sword in the other, 
They came to purify my land, E 
And my Gaelic Irish mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers 
With our own anchient customs, laws, music, art, 
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Way of life and culture 
Tribal in structure, we had a civilisation, 
When they were still neanderthal nations 
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We suffer with the Native American, 
The Indian in Asia, 
Aboriginal Australia, 
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The African people with their history so deep, 
And our children still weep, 
And our lives are still cheap, 
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They came from Germany and France, from England and from Spain, 
From Belgium and from Portugal, 
You all done much the same, 
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You took what was not yours, 
Went against your own Bible, 
You broke your own laws, just to outdo the rival 
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But did you ever apologise, 
For the hundreds of millions of lives, 
Yous destroyed and terrorised, or have you never realised 
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Did you never feel shame for what was done in your countrys name, 
And find out whos to blame, and why it was so in-humane. 
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And still they teach you in your school, 
About those glorious days of rule, 
And how its your destiny to be, superior to me, 
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But if you've any kind of mind, 
You'll see that all human kind 
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 k*ll our will to be free, to be free, 
You'll never k*ll our will to be free, to be free, 
You'll never k*ll our will to be free, to be free, 
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InSide our minds, we all hold the key! 
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