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Thread #56577   Message #885516
Posted By: InOBU
08-Feb-03 - 11:20 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Civil War in Spain
Subject: Lyr Add: THE NEW SAINT (Lorcan Otway)
Brilliant, I wrote a song about the fact that the Catholic church cannonized a Gitano facist to the same tune, an ironic song, since one out of every three Roma (Gypsies) were killed by facists, .... here it is...

THE NEW SAINT
Tune the bantry girl's lament, words, Lorcan Otway all rights reserved...

Oh tell me father Michael, What's that I heard you say
That the church for all its past neglect, named a Gypsy saint today.
Tell me all the details, I'd really like to know
For its been more than a little time, since to our church I'd go.

Tell me what his deeds were, and how he came to die.
Was he murdered by the Gadje, while in exile forced to fly
Or hanged by James of Scotland, when Faa was sent away
Or killed by a polish peasant mob on some lonely cold byway

Did he die with the resistance, in that cold Vichy midnight
While bringing food and weapons to carry on the fight
Or aiding Jews and exiles to escape the Nazi scourge
Or killed by a Nazi death squad bent on their racist purge

Did he die in Auschwitz death camp, when Ziguenier Nacht took place
On that day the tens of thousand Rom, where murdered for their race
Or in in the Czech Republic, thrown from a bridge to die,
O tell me father Michael, was that the reason why

I can't believe what your are telling me, about the way he died
Defending a Fascist priest, defending Franco's side.
If that's the side that God was on, forgive me if I say
It will be a cold day in hell before with you I'll pray.