There Were Roses

[CDS Disney]

As we reflect on every thing that is what is going on in the world. The bombing in Bali, the Arab Israeli conflict, and our own problems. Listen to this song "There Were Roses" you can find it any were. It’s a song about Northern Ireland and there conflict. It's a good song listen and reflect on it. Think about what we can do as a people, a nation, and as citizens of the world. Remember violence doesn’t do anything but cause more violence.

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[CDS Disney]

Lyrics

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 of mine who were both good friends of mine

Isaac Scott from Banagh, he lived just across the fields
A great man for the music, the dancing and the reels
McDonald came from South Armagh to court young Alice fair
And we often met on the Ryan Road and laughter filled the air


-Chorus-
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together


Now Isaac he was Protestant and Sean was Catholic born
But 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'd died and hoped there'd be no more
It was little then we realized the tragedy in store


-Chorus-

It was on a Sunday morning when the awful news came round
Another killing had been done just outside Newry Town
We knew that Isaac danced up there, we knew he liked the band
But when we heard that he was dead we just could not understand


We gathered round the graveside on a cold and rainy day
The minister he closed his eyes and for no revenge he prayed
And 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


-Chorus-

Now fear it filled the countryside there was fear in every home
When late at night a car came prowling round the Ryan Road
A Catholic would be killed tonight to even up the score
Oh Christ it's young McDonald they've taken from the door


Isaac was my friend! he cried, he begged them with his tears
But centuries of hatred have ears that do not hear
An eye for an eye, it was all that filled their minds
And another eye for another eye till everyone is blind


-Chorus-

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 of mine who were both good friends of mine


Now I don't know where the moral is or where this song should end
But I wonder just how many wars are fought between good friends
And those who give the orders are not the ones to die
It's Scott and McDonald and the likes of you and I


There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
There were roses, roses
There were roses....

 

[Katherine]

That's really nice!(sniffle)

 

[disney_nutter]

This song makes me cry every time i hear it for two reasons

1) Most of you know that my parents were taken away from me at an early age by an ira bomb blast. My parents were two normal people just trying to get by in this hell we live in. Im a protestant being brought up by a catholic family all my friends are catholics and we have no problems with each other but this also ties in to my second reason.

2) Over the past week we have seen the northern ireland goverment go back to westminster i have no real problem with this but people here in n.irealnd think that this will make us go back to the way it use to be in the 70s and 80s were we cant hang around together becuase of what we are. Also there is also has been talk that the irs may start bombing the main land again.

 

[tenchu]

Originally posted by disney_nutter
This song makes me cry every time i hear it for two reasons

1) Most of you know that my parents were taken away from me at an early age by an ira bomb blast. My parents were two normal people just trying to get by in this hell we live in. Im a protestant being brought up by a catholic family all my friends are catholics and we have no problems with each other but this also ties in to my second reason.

2) Over the past week we have seen the northern ireland goverment go back to westminster i have no real problem with this but people here in n.irealnd think that this will make us go back to the way it use to be in the 70s and 80s were we cant hang around together becuase of what we are. Also there is also has been talk that the irs may start bombing the main land again.

Well I can only hope that it doesn't go back to the bad old days, it's people our age, disney_nutter, that have to try and change it.

I can tell religion makes no difference to you, if only some more people were like that.