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SAM song

Autori: Gerry O' Glacain

Periodo: La contestazione e i movimenti di liberazione (1967-1979)

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SAM song Well I have been a Provo now for 15 years or more Gerry O' Glacain SAM song
Well I have been a Provo now 
for 15 years or more
With armalites and mortorbombs 
I though I knew the score
But now we have a weapon 
we've never used before
The Brits are looking worried
and their going to worry more

  [Chorus]
  Tiocfaidh Ar La *,sing Up the Ra
  Sam missiles in the sky

I started off with petrol
bombs and throwing bricks and stones
With a hundred more lads like me 
I never was alone
But soon I learned that 
bricks and stones wont drive 
the Brits away
It wasn't long before 
I joined the I.R.A.

  [Chorus]
  Tiocfaidh Ar La *,sing Up the Ra
  Sam missiles in the sky


Then there came internment
in the year of '71
The Brits thought we were beaten,
that we were on the run
On that early August morning 
they kicked in our door
But for every man they took away,
they missed a hundred more

  [Chorus]
  Tiocfaidh Ar La *,sing Up the Ra
  Sam missiles in the sky

I spent eight years in the cages,
I had time to think and plan
For though they locked away a boy,
I walked away a man
And there's only one thing 
I learned while in their cell I lay
The Brits will never leave us,
until there blown away

  [Chorus]
  Tiocfaidh Ar La *,sing Up the Ra
  Sam missiles in the sky

All through the days of hunger strike 
I watched my comrades die
While in the streets of Belfast 
you could hear the women cry
I cant forget the massacre 
that Friday at Loughgall
I salute my fallen comrades,
as I watch the choppers fall  

Informazioni

Il titolo si riferisce ai missili "surface-to-air missiles", o SAM. Pare che a partire dagli anni '70 la Irish Republican Army volesse acquistarne segretamente per abbattere gli elicotteri britannici, ma non è mai stato provato.

*"Tiocfaidh ár lá", abbreviato in  TÁL, sta per "il nostro giorno verrà", in Gaelico, ed è il motto dell'IRA

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Autori testo: Gerry O' Glacain

Periodo: La contestazione e i movimenti di liberazione (1967-1979)

Lingua: inglese

Tags: antimperialisti

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