Oh Ireland Mother Ireland brave men for you have been shot <br />But are you worth one cup of human blood you most certainly are not <br />Your noble sons who fought for you by British guns were slain <br />But what value to a dead hero is worthless immortal name. <br /> <br />If those noble men who died for you could have looked into future day <br />I am sure that they would have ended life in a much more natural way <br />Our politicians have betrayed them and their deaths have been in vain <br />As we are in the Common Market now and our sovereign rights sold down the drain. <br /> <br />In Ireland today the rich get richer and the poor getting more poor <br />As they struggle for survival like rats in an enclosed sewer <br />What with work a getting scarcer and the cost of living high <br />For the working class of Ireland I can see no future joy. <br /> <br />Oh Ireland Mother Ireland your fields are evergreen <br />You are the greenest Land on all God's Earth, the World beauty queen <br />Ah but Ireland would I die for you I most certainly would not <br />I would rather die the natural way and be buried and forgot.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/oh-ireland-mother-ireland/
