| The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Sorry to my Irish cousins but America doesn't teach proper history. Let me try: If I should fall from grace with God Where no doctor can relieve me If I'm buried 'neath the sod But the angels won't receive me (this is saying that if Ireland is coerced away from the Catholic Church, the heavens won't receive them - it has to do with the Protestant Reformation and England's penal laws - when England committed genocide on the Irish in the 1640s. Of 1.6M, the English killed 600K Irish and sent another 300K abroad as slaves - mostly to America - SURPRISE and hello! YES. There were WHITE salves in America. By 1650 there were more Irish Catholic Slaves in America than there were English colonist. Still are too!) Let me go down in the mud Where the rivers all run dry (if we fall from grace, then there's no salvation - we simply die and the rivers run dry aka the after life is void) This land was always ours Was the proud land of our fathers It belongs to us and them Not to any of the others (refers to the English invasion & colonization of "NORTHERN IRELAND." You know - occupation. The English forced Scottish salves - after committing the same genocide there and taking over its country - into NORTHERN IRELAND. The land of OUR fathers belongs to us, by way of our fathers and belongs to no other. Like Scott-Irish who are still beholden to the UK - unlike the rest of Ireland) Bury me at sea Where no murdered ghost can haunt me (the murdered ghosts are Ireland's forefathers, who haunt the land taken from them b/c of their faith - Roman Catholic vs Protestants. BTW Ireland. We are the 2nd largest nationality in America with the largest denomination - but we miss OUR LAND too) If I rock upon the waves Then no corpse can lie upon me (so many Irish were killed by the English that people were buried upon one another) Bury me at sea, Where no murdered ghost can haunt me (the Wild Geese aka the Irish sent abroad as slaves. So many Irish were killed on slave ships that bodies littered the ocean & were likened to bread crumbs leading the way to County Cork from the port of NYC - and later Boston) In closing - the Irish in America made up 1/3rd of the Union Army. My ancestors fought under Col Corcoran & General William T Sherman. We fought ("Fighting Irish" - see Fr Corby. Notre Dame) & earned our right to FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE. Whats troubling to me, is now some IRISH want to go back to DEPENDING on Govt (RULERS) NO NAY NEVER. NO NAY NEVER NO MORE! |
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