SONG FOR MARIAN PRICE

Words and Music by Peadar Ó hÍcí

Dust off "Bring Them Home" and open up those blinkered eyes,
With heads down buried in the sand, believing this the promised land, but Jaysus don't you raise your hand, or give your tuppence on the way things stand.

Or you'll end up just like Marian vindictively interned,
No matter what the judge did say, the price of her name she will pay, the law was broken that's Ok,
so long as in the prison cell she stays...

Beware the Price of being one who dares to disagree
As long as they keep Marian, then none of us are free.

Tortured now because she wore a different shade of green,
Bernadette came on the screen, and said this should have never been, and all the hardship that was seen, internment's still a part of the regime....

A celebrated partnership of now glistens in the news
The handshakes and the smiles can't hide, the rotten core that still resides (the facist rule that still resides), since Strongbow sailed upon the tide, and our resistance never ever died...

Beware the Price of being one who dares to disagree As long as they keep Marian, then none of us are free.

For Price, they broke their own laws, and they never answered why,
Two juries couldn't set her free. no dissent round here there'll be, they won't report it on TV, it's not this truth we want the world to see...

Beware the Price of being one who dares to disagree
As long as they keep Marian, then none of us are free.