The Paddy's bit we always sing as Hades. that's the way Christy recorded it and teh way it is in the original poem by Bobby Sands. For those who don't know (this seems to come up in threads regularly) Bobby Sands wrote a poem called "The Voyage" which has got a stack of verses in it but not the chorus we sing, and Christy Moore arranged some of the verses, changing and amalgamating bits, and set them to the music of "The wreck of the Edmund Fitxgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot. There is an IRA/Sinn Fein/H-Block Hungerstrike page somewhere in cyberspace that talks about those who died during the strike in the Maze, and also has some of Sands' poetry, including "The Voyage" in full.
Of course not the only song that Christy does of Sands', MacIlhatton is also writtn by him.
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