MARXMAN - Sad Affair lyrics

Once upon a time there was

Irish ways and irish laws

Villages of irish blood

waking to the morning good

But england and her soldiers came

started centuries of shame

Raped our women stole our grain

called this land a different name

Killed the leaders killed the young

put to the sword or gun or hung

history taught this to me

but what some learn is a travesty

I'm saying no slaying is playing it right

and death is the legacy of this fight

but a fight for peace agains injustice

the time has come to discuss this

SAD AFFAIR

I had a dream of days to come

when orange only ment the summer sun

and not the knife that cuts apart

a nations soul a nations heart

a thousand tears my mother shed

sons and daughters have died and bled

i cannot forget their brave example

thank you all for whom i tremple

people have been mistreat for too long

how long to sing this sad song

connolly said we shall rise again

and surely one day the pain must end

some say......thats a bridge too far

some they say......tiocfaidh ar la!

some pretend the problems don't exist

some attack and some resist...it's a

SAD AFFAIR

Some say one day our day will come

the race is run we know the outcome

the tide is on the side of the green

the butchers apron no longer seen

but all i know is that peace must win

and i thought this was Ireland mot Britain

a six country state is a bastard state

why oh why can't we all integrate

but my people suffer great injustice daily

condemned by racism in the bailey

the Guildford Four, Maguires and the Six

Innocent! but guilty of being Micks

and my culture is as strong as a pyramid

and you will pay for these things you did

not just to we but to the African

The Asian and the true American

and tomorrow the sorrow will continue

and the hatred will fester in the sinew

i feel like a stranger in the land where i was born

i just have to wait for a new dawn.....it's a

SAD AFFAIR