Wolfe Tones Joe Mcdonnell lyrics

Joe Mcdonnell by Wolfe Tones



O me name is Joe McDonnell from

Belfast town I came

That city I will

never see again

For in the town of Belfast

I spent many happy days

I love that town in oh so many ways

For it's there I spent my childhood and found

for me a wife

I then set out to make

for her a life

But all my young ambitions met with bitterness and hate

I soon found myself inside a prison gate



And you dare to call me a terrorist

while you looked down your gun

When I think of all the deeds that you had done

You had plundered many nations divided many lands

You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron 

hand.

And you brought this reign of terror to my land



Through those many months internment

In the Maidstone and the Maze

I thought about my land throughout those days

Why my country was divided, why I was now in jail

Imprisoned without crime or without trial

And though I love my country I am not a bitter man

I've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand

So then one fateful morning I shook bold freedom's hand

For right or wrong I'd try to free my land



And you dare to call me a terrorist

while you looked down your gun

When I think of all the deeds that you had done

You had plundered many nations divided many lands