The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74427   Message #1298238
Posted By: Abby Sale
15-Oct-04 - 07:19 PM
Thread Name: Who was Bobby Sands?
Subject: RE: Who was Bobby Sands.......
The "happy?" file gives:

Ulster: After 65-days (from 3/1) of the Hunger Strike in Long Kesh prison, IRA leader Bobby Sands died 5/5/1981.

        Twenty years have gone by and I've ended me bond
        And comrades' ghosts are behind me.
        A rebel I came and I'II die the same.
        On the cold winds of night you will find me.

                From "Back Home in Derry" DigTrad filename[ BCKDERRY

While in prison, Sands wrote this song for his comrades in H-block singing it out through a keyhole in his cell-door. Same tune as "Wreck Of The Edmond Fitz."