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If We don't Help them now
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A contemporary Celtic arrangement.
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A combination of Irish/Celtic traditional/Contmporary music with a radical edge.
'Pol is blessed with a superb folk voice and sings with a real heartfelt passion.' Greenman Music Review. 'This is a true voice, a real voice and a protest voice something we have been missing for some time in Folk Music.' Anna Livia FM. Dublin Radio. 'Meet the voice of the people'. Andersonstown News. 'The power of music!'. North Belfast News. 'Like it A Lot!'. Christy Moore. 'One man revolution.The next Christy Moore!' AP/RN. 'Gets the boot into folk!. Sunday world. 'The musicianship here is excellent, and even the spartan arrangements to some of the songs show MacAdaim's skill for matching music to words. I very much want to hear more from this talented individual!' Rambles Music Magazine.
Song Info
Genre
World • Traditional Irish
Charts
Peak #112
Peak in subgenre #5
Author
Pól Mac Adaim
Rights
Reality Records 2002
Uploaded
May 12, 2004
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MP3 1.1 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
In 2001 I went to Dublin for a Solidarity Demo for Hungerstrikers in Turkey. On the way to the demo I was introduced to a hungerstriker. After talking to him I decided to write this song.
Lyrics
If we don’t help them now As the sun goes down over Istanbul town a father and mother weep In an ‘F’-block jail behind the steel rail for the last time their daughter sleeps Starving for human rights she won’t give up the fight let her know neither will we For as long as the fascists are in control there they’ll come closer to you and to me Through countless years of torture and fear this corrupt state of evil survives Neath(Beneath) the blazing sun this rebellion will uncover this governments lies Mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers starve inside and outside the jails If we don’t help them now we won’t need to ask how this human rights process will fail Back in ’81 our very own sons did starve against such evil ways Though it’s been twenty years we still shed our tears for the suffering they went through each day. Starving for human rights she won’t give up the fight let her know neither will we For as long as the fascists are in control there they’ll come closer to you and to me Travel agents disguise this government’s lies selling holiday breaks in this land If you can hear the plea of the boycott they need then you’ve started to reach out your hand Mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers starve inside and outside the jails If we don’t help them now we won’t need to ask how this human rights process will fail Starving for human rights she won’t give up the fight let her know neither will we For as long as the fascists are in control there they’ll come closer to you and to me. ©(p)Pol Mac Adaim.2002. Reality Records.
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