The Great Hunger - Wolfe Tones

Añadido: May 17, 2008

De: machree01

Duración: 3:28

Wolfe Tones singing The Great Hunger. About the Irish famine, from their album, Across The Broad Atlantic, {1976}. It was in the year 1845 a great hunger came o'er the land, And it was the neglect of the rulers to be that no crops could the soil command, Yet the farmer he tilt he toiled and he sewed, and he blame't it with his strong hands a great hunger came o'er the land. The moon it shone bright, o'er the late Autumn skies, was the finest the harvest moon yet it was not the sight of joy to be seen For then again too soon, crop failure Had turned the sweetness all sore, In the hearts of all Ireland a great hunger came o'er the land. Now the men they grow weak And the women or pale And the children or dying now, the cold winter months will soon pass us by, without hope in the early spring, and the people will cry with a hungry plea, without hope of a helping hand, a great hunger came o'er the land. The birds they or singing way out of tune As the cart pulls the donkey along, The crops they have failed us again in this year Oh then tell me what caused this wrong, Was it the curse of a which that caused this? Bad deed or the work the devils hand, a great hunger came o'er the land. Not a devil or which had a hand in this deed Of this I a sure you now, but the cuckoo of men, this crippling foe, though it's little that you might have he has exploited the work of the labouring man and while his belly expands, a great hunger came o'er the land.

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