Long Kesh Chords

Long Kesh
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There's a place just outside Lisburn
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It's a place that's known to few
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Where a group of Irish rebels
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Are held by Faulkner's crew
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They are forced to live in cages
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Like the inmates of Bellevue
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But the sperit of 1916
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Will always see them through
 
 
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The men in this vile place
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They come from far and near
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Some from the Derry Bogside
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And Omagh town so near
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And some of them from Belfast
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From the markets and the Falls
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From the narrow streets of Ardoyne
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And all around Tyrone
 
 
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On that black day in August
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When Faulkner showed his hand
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He thought that by internment
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He could break our gallant band
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But the boys from Ballymurphy
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How they showed the way that night
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How they thaught those English soldiers
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How Irish men could fight
 
 
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Long Kesh it's known to everyone
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The system must be broke
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Ardoyne the New Lodge and the Falls
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Will see the system choke
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No more the special powers act
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The means will envoke
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And Long Kesh will be the U stone
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Of which the system's broke
 
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A word now Irish people
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No matter where you are
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Remember our brave rebels
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In Long Kesh this year
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And by civil disobeience
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Or any other way
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We'll make a stand until the day
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Each one of them are free