Let the People Sing

For those who are in love

There's a song that's warm and tender

For those who are oppressed

In song you can protest

So liberate your minds

And give your soul expression

Open up your hearts

I'll sing for you this song

Let the people sing their stories and their songs

And the music of their native land

Their lullabies and battlecries and songs of hope and joy

So join us hand in hand

All across this ancient land

Throughout the test of time

It was music that kept their spirits free

Those songs of yours and of mine

It was back in ancient times

The bard would tell his stories

Of the heroes, of the villain

Of the chieftain in the glen

Through Elizabethian times

And Cromwellian war and fury

Put our pipers to the sword

Killed our harpers and our bards

Let the people sing their stories and their songs

And the music of their native land

Their lullabies and battlecries and songs of hope and joy

So join us hand in hand

All across this ancient land

Throughout the test of time

It was music that kept their spirits free

Those songs of yours and of mine

Ireland, land of song

Your music lives forever

In its valleys, in its mountains

In its hills and in its glens

Our music did survive

Through famine and oppression

To the generations gone

I'll sing for you this song

Let the people sing their stories and their songs

And the music of their native land

Their lullabies and battlecries and songs of hope and joy

So join us hand in hand

All across this ancient land

Throughout the test of time

It was music that kept their spirits free

Those songs of yours and of mine