ANOTHER OUTRAGE
(Songwriter unknown by me- anyone else?)

Another outrage on the news last night:
A soldier killed, all your neighbours uptight.
Turned out of your local for the good of your health,
As if you'd pulled the trigger yourself.
I sat with Martin in a pub that night,
Old Kilkenny, and his eyes shone bright.
We sang some songs and they made him cry,
Put down his drink and dried his eyes.
Says: "All this killing's an awful disgrace",
While he spoke the tears stained his face,
Couldn't finish what he was trying to say,
We understood him fine anyway.

CHORUS:

800 years and it's not over yet,
Think of the pain and the lies we've been fed,
And above all the tears and the blood
So senselessly shed.

Born in a country that's never your own
Of immigrant parents who've left their own homes,
Those little comments that leave you cold,
Just a foretaste of what's to come,
Like "your father's Pat and your mother's Biddy,
And if you can't share the joke son, that's just a pity".
This humour they find so great,
Born of centuries of hate.

The news from Ireland is savage and sad,
And over here they think the Irish are mad,
These Troubles they'll ne'er understand:
It wasn't us who partitioned the land.
Centuries have passed and still we're oppressed
By cruel jokes and ignorance often expressed,
And a system that's made being Irish you'd think an offence.
I've prayed and I've cursed, words spat from my tongue,
All this would end and that a time would come
When songs like this needn't be written and needn't be sung,

CHORUS

So senselessly shed.

INSTR. OUTRO

From the album Hung Up and Dry by Afterhours- they were a great band. Words typed out by me from listening to the tape.

JB