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| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | There Were Roses | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 143 | | | | Lyrics: | There Were Roses
(Tommy Sands)
My song for you this evening, it's not to make you
sad
Nor for adding to the sorrows of this troubled northern land,
But lately I've been
thinking and it just won't leave my mind
I'll tell you of two friends one time who were both
good friends of mine.
Allan Bell from Banagh, he lived just across the fields,
A
great man for the music and the dancing and the reels.
O'Malley came from South Armagh to court
young Alice fair,
And we'd often meet on the Ryan Road and the laughter filled the
air.
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of the
people
Ran together
Though Allan, he was Protestant, and Sean was Catholic
born,
It never made a difference for the friendship, it was strong.
And sometimes in the
evening when we heard the sound of drums
We said, ''It won't divide us. We always will be
one.''
For the ground our fathers plowed in, the soil, it is the same,
And the
places where we say our prayers have just got different names.
We talked about the friends who
died, and we hoped there'd be no more.
It's little then we realized the tragedy in
store.
It was on a Sunday morning when the awful news came round.
Another killing
has been done just outside Newry Town.
We knew that Allan danced up there, we knew he liked the
band.
When we heard that he was dead we just could not understand.
We gathered at
the graveside on that cold and rainy day,
And the minster he closed his eyes and prayed for no
revenge.
All all of us who knew him from along the Ryan Road,
We bowed our heads and said
a prayer for the resting of his soul.
Now fear, it filled the countryside. There was
fear in every home
When a car of death came prowling round the lonely Ryan Road.
A
Catholic would be killed tonight to even up the score.
''Oh, Christ! It's young O'Malley that
they've taken from the door.''
''Allan was my friend,'' he cried. He begged them with
his fear,
But centuries of hatred have ears that cannot hear.
An eye for an eye was all
that filled their minds
And another eye for another eye till everyone is blind.
So
my song for you this evening, it's not to make you sad
Nor for adding to the sorrows of our
troubled northern land,
But lately I've been thinking and it just won't leave my
mind.
I'll tell you of two friends one time who were both good friends of mine.
I
don't know where the moral is or where this song should end,
But I wondered just how many wars
are fought between good friends.
And those who give the orders are not the ones to
die.
It's Bell and O'Malley and the likes of you and I.
There were roses,
roses
There were roses
@political @Irish
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