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The Fields of Athenry by Pete St. John
Performed by The Dubliners (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 2002)
Solist: Paddy Reilly
(Shut up, you!)
By a lonely prison wall,
I heard a young girl calling:
"Michael they have taken you away,
For you stole Trevelyan's corn,
So the young might see the morn',
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."
Low lie the Fields of Athenry,
where once we watched the small free birds fly.
(ooh baby let the free birds fly)
Our love was on the wing,
(Sinn Féin!)
we had dreams and songs to sing,
(IRA!)
It's so lonely round the Fields of Athenry.
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young man calling:
"Nothing matters Mary when you're free.
Against the famine and the crown,
I rebelled, they cut me down,
Now you must raise our child with dignity."
(On your own now!...)
Low lie the Fields of Athenry,
where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing,
we had dreams and songs to sing,
It's so lonely round the Fields of Athenry.
By a lonely harbour wall
She watched the last star falling,
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky.
For she lived in hope and pray,
For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely round the Fields of Athenry.
(Let's hear it now!)
Low lie the Fields of Athenry,
where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing,
we had dreams and songs to sing,
It's so lonely round the Fields of Athenry.
(One more last time! Let's hear it now!)
Low lie the Fields of Athenry,
where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing,
we had dreams and songs to sing,
It's so lonely round the Fields of Athenry.
(Let's stop! Well done! Thank you!)