Biography:
The Wolfe Tones is an Irish rebel music band that incorporates elements of Irish traditional music. Formed in 1963, their most recognizable line-up that lasted for nearly 37 years until January 2001 was brothers Brian Warfield and Derek Warfield, and Noel Nagle, and Tommy Byrne. The band take its name from the Irish rebel and patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double entendre of a wolf tone – a spurious sound that can affect instruments of the violin family.
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- Finnegans Wake
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- Grace
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- Let The People Sing
- On The One Road
- Oro Se Do Bheatha Bhaile
- Quare Things In Dublin
- Rifles Of The Ira
- Rock On Rockall
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- Snipers Promise
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
THE WOLFE TONES
JOE McDONNELL
[Verse 1]
G C G
O me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came
C G D
That city I will never see again
G C G
For in the town of Belfast I spent many happy days
C G D
I love that town in oh so many ways
Am C Am C G
For it's there I spent my childhood and found for me a wife
Am C G D
I then set out to make for her a life
G C G
But all my young ambitions met with bitterness and hate
C G D
I soon found myself inside a prison gate
[Chorus]
Am C Am C G
And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun
Am C G D
When I think of all the deeds that you have done
G
You had plundered many nations divided many lands
C Am C D
You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand
G C D
And you brought this reign of terror to my land
G C G
Through those many months internment In the Maidstone and the Maze
C G D
I thought about my land throughout those days
G C G
Why my country was divided, why I was now in jail
C G D
Imprisoned without crime or without trial
Am C Am C G
And though I love my country I am not a bitter man
Am C G D
I've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand
Am C Am C G
So then one fateful morning I shook bold freedom's hand
C G D
For right or wrong I'd try to free my land
[Chorus]
Am C Am C G
And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun
Am C G D
When I think of all the deeds that you have done
G
You had plundered many nations divided many lands
C Am C D
You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand
G C D
And you brought this reign of terror to my land
G C G
Then one cold October morning trapped in a lion's den
C G D
I found myself in prison once again
G C G
I was committed to the H-blocks for fourteen years or more
C G D
Oh the Blankest the conditions they were poor
Am C Am C G
Then a hunger strike we did commence for the dignity of man
Am C G D
But it seemed to me that no one gave a damn
G C G
But now, I'm a saddened man I've watched my comrades die
C G D
If only people cared or wondered why
[Chorus]
Am C Am C G
And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun
Am C G D
When I think of all the deeds that you have done
G
You had plundered many nations divided many lands
C Am C D
You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand
G C D
And you brought this reign of terror to my land
G C G
May God shine on you Bobby Sands for the courage you have shown
C G D
May your glory and your fame be widely known
G C G
And Francis Hughes and Ray McCreesh who died unselfishly
C G D
And Patsy O Hara and the next in line is me
Am C Am C G
And those who lie behind me may you're courage be the same
Am C G D
And I pray to God my life is not in vain
G C G
Ah but sad and bitter was the year of 1981
C G D
For everything I've lost and nothing's won
JOE McDONNELL
[Verse 1]
G C G
O me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came
C G D
That city I will never see again
G C G
For in the town of Belfast I spent many happy days
C G D
I love that town in oh so many ways
Am C Am C G
For it's there I spent my childhood and found for me a wife
Am C G D
I then set out to make for her a life
G C G
But all my young ambitions met with bitterness and hate
C G D
I soon found myself inside a prison gate
[Chorus]
Am C Am C G
And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun
Am C G D
When I think of all the deeds that you have done
G
You had plundered many nations divided many lands
C Am C D
You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand
G C D
And you brought this reign of terror to my land
G C G
Through those many months internment In the Maidstone and the Maze
C G D
I thought about my land throughout those days
G C G
Why my country was divided, why I was now in jail
C G D
Imprisoned without crime or without trial
Am C Am C G
And though I love my country I am not a bitter man
Am C G D
I've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand
Am C Am C G
So then one fateful morning I shook bold freedom's hand
C G D
For right or wrong I'd try to free my land
[Chorus]
Am C Am C G
And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun
Am C G D
When I think of all the deeds that you have done
G
You had plundered many nations divided many lands
C Am C D
You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand
G C D
And you brought this reign of terror to my land
G C G
Then one cold October morning trapped in a lion's den
C G D
I found myself in prison once again
G C G
I was committed to the H-blocks for fourteen years or more
C G D
Oh the Blankest the conditions they were poor
Am C Am C G
Then a hunger strike we did commence for the dignity of man
Am C G D
But it seemed to me that no one gave a damn
G C G
But now, I'm a saddened man I've watched my comrades die
C G D
If only people cared or wondered why
[Chorus]
Am C Am C G
And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun
Am C G D
When I think of all the deeds that you have done
G
You had plundered many nations divided many lands
C Am C D
You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand
G C D
And you brought this reign of terror to my land
G C G
May God shine on you Bobby Sands for the courage you have shown
C G D
May your glory and your fame be widely known
G C G
And Francis Hughes and Ray McCreesh who died unselfishly
C G D
And Patsy O Hara and the next in line is me
Am C Am C G
And those who lie behind me may you're courage be the same
Am C G D
And I pray to God my life is not in vain
G C G
Ah but sad and bitter was the year of 1981
C G D
For everything I've lost and nothing's won
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