Lyr Req: Give Ireland Back to the Irish (McCartney

08 Mar 02 - 09:48 PM (#665501)
Subject: give ireland back to the irish
From: GUEST,bevcoddy

hi: If anyone can help me I have an old tape recording of a song that the Chorus goes "give ireland back to the irish, don't let us have to take it a way." the tape has other songs by seeamus kennedy, the clancy brothers and tommy makem. i can't make out which of them does the song but I like it and the tape is wearing. if anyone knows the title or who did it I would appriecate it.

bevcoddy

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08 Mar 02 - 10:09 PM (#665513)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: give ireland back to the irish
From: Brakn

Paul McCartney and Wings.

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08 Mar 02 - 10:28 PM (#665525)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: give ireland back to the irish
From: masato sakurai

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~Masato

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09 Mar 02 - 10:20 AM (#665704)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: give ireland back to the irish
From: Noreen

Written by Paul (and Linda) McCartney, recorded by Wings in 1972, banned by the BBC.

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11 Mar 02 - 01:48 PM (#667059)
Subject: Lyr Add: GIVE IRELAND BACK TO THE IRISH
From: Jim Dixon

Just because the BBC banned it doesn't mean we have to ban it, too.

Copied from http://home.t-online.de/home/shamrockshire/ireland/Give_Ireland_Back_To_The_Irish.html

GIVE IRELAND BACK TO THE IRISH
(Paul and Linda McCartney)

Give Ireland back to the Irish,
Don't make them have to take it away.
Give Ireland back to the Irish,
Make Ireland Irish today.

Great Britain, you are tremendous,
And nobody knows like me.
But really, what are you doing
In the land across the sea?
Tell me, how would you like it,
If on your way to work,
You were stopped by Irish soldiers?
Would you lie down, do nothing,
Would you give in, who can say?

Give Ireland back to the Irish,
Don't make them have to take it away, yeh.
Give Ireland back to the Irish,
Make Ireland Irish today, yeah.

Great Britain and all the people,
Say that people must be free.
And meanwhile, back in Ireland,
There's a man who looks like me.
And he dreams of God and country
And he's feeling really bad.
And he's sitting in a prison.
Say, should he lie down, do nothing,
Should he give in or go mad?

Give Ireland back to the Irish,
Don't make them have to take it away, yeh.
Give Ireland back to the Irish,
Make Ireland Irish today.

Give Ireland back to the Irish,
Don't make them have to take it away.
Give Ireland back to the Irish,
Make Ireland Irish today, yeah, yeah.

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