{"id":1342,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/bobby-sands"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"bobby-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/bobby-sands\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

My name is Bobby Sands, MP
\nBorn in the city of Belfast
\nDivided by religion
\nI grew up fast<\/p>\n

I was stabbed and I was spat upon
\nMy family run out of its home
\nThere was only one solution
\nTurn the whole system upside down<\/p>\n

But the system had other ideas
\nI got lifted for carryin’ a gun
\nIn a trial without a jury
\nI got fourteen years from the judge<\/p>\n

Screws beat me regularly
\nBut they couldn’t break me because
\nI had the love of my comrades
\nAnd a burnin’ faith in my Cause<\/p>\n

Still I left a girl outside pregnant
\nMarried her while on remand
\nNow I got a son and a pain in my heart
\nWhen he doesn’t recognize his old man<\/p>\n

Your soul’s on ice oh oh oh oh
\nBut they can’t stop the desire
\nTo break on out oh oh oh oh
\nWhen your heart is on fire<\/p>\n

We wouldn’t wear their convict clothes
\nSo they stripped us to the bone
\nThrew in some threadbare blankets…..<\/p>\n

And when they jeered us about our nakedness
\nAs we slopped out down the halls
\nWe wouldn’t come out of their prison cells
\nWe smeared shit on their prison walls<\/p>\n

Stuck in an eight foot concrete box
\nWith a bible, a mattress
\nAnd the threat of violence every day….<\/p>\n

Can I make it through these fourteen years
\nWill my son remember my face
\nI don’t blame her for the separation
\nBut for Christ’s sake let him keep his name<\/p>\n

Your soul’s on ice oh oh oh oh
\nBut they can’t stop the desire
\nTo break on out oh oh oh oh
\nWhen your heart is on fire<\/p>\n

Five simple things we ask of them
\nFive simple things denied
\nBut Thatcher will not compromise….<\/p>\n

I ask my Mother’s permission
\nTo finally break her heart
\nWe have come to a decision
\n……Hunger Strike<\/p>\n

Three comrades starve behind me
\nI pray to God that my
\nDeath will lead to compromise….<\/p>\n

I can no longer see your face
\nMy bones break through my skin
\nI’m goin’ back to Belfast City
\nYou can’t cage my spirit in<\/p>\n

Your soul’s on ice
\nBut they can’t stop the desire
\nTo break on out
\nWhen your heart is on fire<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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