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Thread #103544 Message #4041446
Posted By: Joe Offer
22-Mar-20 - 08:08 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Tommy Makem has Passed Away (1932-2007)
Subject: ADD: The Winds Are Singing Freedom (Makem)
Somebody sang this Makem song this afternoon.
THE WINDS ARE SINGING FREEDOM (Tommy Makem)
And the winds are singing freedom They sing it everywhere They sing it on the mountainside And in the city square They sing of a new day dawning When our people will be free Come and join their song of freedom Let it ring from sea to sea
In the battered streets of Belfast Can't you hear the people cry? For justice long denied them And their crying fills the sky But the winds of change are singing Bringing hope from dark despair There's a day of justice coming You can feel it in the air
Chorus
Too long our people suffered In their misery and their tears And foreign rulers used our land For about eight hundred years It's a long road has no turning And I know that soon we'll see That day of justice dawning When our people will be free
Chorus
There's a time laid out for laughing There's a time laid out to weep There's a time laid out for sowing And a time laid out to reap There's a time to love your brother There's a time for hate to cease You must sow the seeds of justice To reap the fruits of peace