| For those who are in love
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| There’s a song that’s warm and tender
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| For those who are oppressed
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| In song you can protest
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| So liberate your minds
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| And give your soul expression
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| Open up your hearts
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| I’ll sing for you this song
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| Let the people sing their stories and their songs
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| And the music of their native land
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| Their lullabies and battlecries and songs of hope and joy
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| So join us hand in hand
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| All across this ancient land
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| Throughout the test of time
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| It was music that kept their spirits free
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| Those songs of yours and of mine
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| It was back in ancient times
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| The bard would tell his stories
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| Of the heroes, of the villain
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| Of the chieftains in the glen
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| Through Elizabethian time
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| And Cromwellian war and fury
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| Put our pipers to the sword
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| Killed our harpers and our bards
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| Let the people sing their stories and their songs
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| And the music of their native land
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| Their lullabies and battlecries and songs of hope and joy
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| So join us hand in hand
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| All across this ancient land
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| Throughout the test of time
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| It was music that kept their spirits free
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| Those songs of yours and of mine
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| Ireland, land of song
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| Your music lives forever
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| In its valleys, in its mountains
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| In its hills and in its glens
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| Our music did survive
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| Through famine and oppression
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| To the generations gone
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| I’ll sing for you this song
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| Let the people sing their stories and their songs
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| And the music of their native land
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| Their lullabies and battlecries and songs of hope and joy
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| So join us hand in hand
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| All across this ancient land
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| Throughout the test of time
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| It was music that kept their spirits free
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| Those songs of yours and of mine |