Friday, November 07, 2003
Serendipity: mp3 as education
As I don't listen to the radio much, share my friends' CDs, watch music videos, or whatever normal people do to find new music, my food-of-love collection is rather odd. You see, I download songs with titles that catch my eye, songs that I've heard people talking about. This means that half of my playlist is weird crap, but sometimes I stumble upon something interesting. Once I was looking for "Gloomy Sunday", the song that apparently provoked a number of suicides. Being the dolt that I am, I forgot the exact title and ended up searching for "Bloody Sunday". And found...an Irish rebel song, by a band called Eire Og. Here are the lyrics from an Irish poet dude's site:"Well it was Sunday Bloody Sunday
When they shot the people down
The cries of 14 martyrs
Filled the Free Derry air
Is there anyone amongst you
Dare to blame it on the kids?
Not a soldier boy was bleeding
When they nailed the coffin lids
You claim to be majority
Well you know that it's a lie
You're really a minority
On the sweet Emerald Isle
When Stormont bans our marches
They've got a lot to learn
Internment is no answer
It's those mothers turn to burn
You Anglo pigs and Scotties
Sent to colonise the North
You wave your fucking Union Jacks
And you know what it's worth
How dare you hold to ransom
A people proud and free
Keep Ireland for the Irish
Turn the British back to sea
Yes it's always bloody Sunday
In the concentration camps
Keep the Falls Road free forever
From the bloody English hands
Repatriate to Britain
All of you who call it home
Leave Ireland to the Irish
Not for London or for Rome"
An interesting introduction into Irish history, no?
Speaking of Irish history, I learned a new word today: fenian. Which lead to a find on the Fenian brotherhood:
"One of the main goals of the Fenian Brotherhood was to invade Canada in order to ransom it back to Britain in return for Irish freedom.
# posted at 5:41 pm
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