Joe Mcdonnell - Wolfe Tones

Written by：Wolfe Tones

O me name is Joe Mcdonnell

From bel fast town I came

That city I will

Never see again

For in the town of bel fast

I spent many happy days

I love that town in oh so many ways

For it's there I spent my childhood

And found for me a wife

I then set out to make

For her a life

But all my young ambitions

Met with bitterness and hate

I soon found myself inside a prison gate

And you dare to call me a terrorist

While you looked down your gun

When I think of all the deeds

That you had done

You had plundered many nations

Divided many lands

You had terrorized their peoples

You ruled with an iron hand

And you brought

This reign of terror to my land

Through those many months internment

In the maid stone and the maze

I thought about my land

Throughout those days

Why my country was divided

Why I was now in jail

Imprisoned without crime or without trial

And though I love my country

I'm not a bitter man

I've seen cruelty

And injustice at first hand

So then one fateful morning

I shook bold freedom's hand

For right or wrong

I'd try to free my land

And you dare to call me a terrorist

While you looked down your gun

When I think of all the deeds

That you had done

You had plundered many nations

Divided many lands

You had terrorized their peoples

You ruled with an iron hand

And you brought

This reign of terror to my land

Then one cold October morning

Trapped in a lion's den

I found myself in prison once again

I was committed to the h blocks

For fourteen years or more

On the blanket the conditions they were poor

Then a hunger strike

We did commence for the dignity of man

But it seemed to me

That no one gave a d**n

But now I'm a saddened man

I've watched my comrades die

If only people cared or wondered why

And you dare to call me a terrorist

While you looked down your gun

When I think of all the deeds

That you had done

You had plundered many nations

Divided many lands

You had terrorized their peoples

You ruled with an iron hand

And you brought

This reign of terror to my land

May God shine on you bobby sands

For the courage you have shown

May your glory

And your fame be widely known

And Francis Hughes

And ray screenwash who died unselfishly

And patsy o hare

And the next in line is me

And those who lie behind me

May you're courage be the same

And I pray to God

My life is not in vain

Ah but sad

And bitter was the year of 1981

For everything I've lost and nothing's won