Here are the lyrics from the Christy Moore Recording:

The Dunnes Stores Strike
(Sandra Kerr)

Close your eyes and come with me back to 1984
We’ll take a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes Department store
The supermarket’s busy, the registers make a din
The groceries go rollin’ out and the cash comes rollin’ in

Mary Manning is at the checkout trying to keep warm,
A customer comes up to her a basket on her arm
The contents of that basket Mary’s future was to shape
The label clearly stated, produce of The Cape

I can’t check out your oranges Mam, you’ll have to put them back
They come from South Africa where The White oppress The Black
I’d have it on my conscience I couldn’t sleep at night
If I helped support a system that denies Black People’s Rights
CHORUS

The managers descended in an avalanche of suits
Mary was suspended cos she wouldn’t touch the fruits
No one was goin’ to tell Ben Dunne what he bought or sold
These women are only workers they must do as they are told

Isn’t that just typical of the way Apartheid works
It’s not just in South Africa that the Boss man calls the shots
Dunne’s wouldn’t have a boycott, couldn’t give a tinkers curse
Don’t matter how they filled the shelves so long as they lined his purse
CHORUS

Goodwill and solidarity came from all around the world
Such concern and sacrifice, such courage brave and bold
When 14 months were over 10 women and a man
Had helped to raise black consciousness all around the land

Clerys in O’Connell St stopped sellin’ South African shoes
Best Man sent all their clothes back, Roches stores their booze
Til all South African Goods were taken off the shelves in Dunnes
Mary Manning was down in Henry St and she was sticking to her guns
CHORUS

Lyrics source: https://www.christymoore.com/christy-chat/the-flowers-that-bloom-in-the-spring-tra-la/ (these lyrics are somewhat different from the Christy Moore recording)


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