Bad News ( song )

By the lonely prison wall

I heard a young man calling

Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free

Against the famine and the Crown

I rebelled, they shot us down

Now you must raise our child with dignity

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Low lie the fields of Athenry

Where once we watched the small free birds fly

Our love was on the wing

We had dreams and songs to sing

It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry

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By a lonely harbour wall

She watched the last star falling

And that prison ship sailed out against the sky

Sure she'll wait and hope and pray

For her love in Botany Bay

It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry

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Low lie the fields of Athenry

Where once we watched the small free birds fly

Our love was on the wing

We had dreams and songs to sing

It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry

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By the lonely prison wall

I heard a young man calling

Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free

Against the famine and the Crown

I rebelled, they shot us down

Now you must raise our child with dignity

---

Low lie the fields of Athenry

Where once we watched the small free birds fly

Our love was on the wing

We had dreams and songs to sing

It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry

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