Bobby Sands - The Peoples Own MP

Song about Bobby Sands MP (IRA) sung by Christy Moore. Sands died on Hungertrike in 1981 for his rights as a political prisoner and for Irish Freedom from British occupation.

A new movie called 'Hunger' has been made about Bobby in prison. It has already won several awards.


Lyrics

How many more must die now, how many must we lose
Before the island people their own destiny can choose?
From immortal Robert Emmet to Bobby Sands M.P
Who was given 30,000 votes while in captivity

No more he,ll hear the larks sweet notes upon the Ulster air
Or gaze upon the snowflake pure to calm his deep despair
Before he went on hungerstrike young Bobby did compose
The Rhythm of Time the Weeping Winds and the Sleeping Rose

He was a poet and a soldier, he died courageously
And we gave him 30,000 votes while in captivity.

Thomas Ashe gave everything in 1917
The lord mayor of Cork Mac Sweeney died his freedom to obtain
But never one of all our dead died more courageously
Than young Bobby Sands from Twinbrook, the people's own M.P


He was a poet and a soldier, he died courageously
And we gave him 30,000 votes while in captivity.