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SAN PATRICIOS - withdrawing concent for US imperialism

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday January 24, 2003 20:32author by Eoin Dubskyauthor email info at refuelingpeace dot org Report this post to the editors

On the issue of being part of Bush's gang and then pulling out, I thought I'd share this song with you by David Rovics about the San Patricios Batallion:

My name is John Riley
I'll have your ear only a while
I left my dear home in Ireland
It was death, starvation or exile
And when I got to America
It was my duty to go
Enter the Army and slog across Texas
To join in the war against Mexico

It was there in the pueblos and hillsides
That I saw the mistake I had made
Part of a conquering army
With the morals of a bayonet blade
So in the midst of these poor, dying Catholics
Screaming children, the burning stench of it all
Myself and two hundred Irishmen
Decided to rise to the call

(Chorus)
From Dublin City to San Diego
We witnessed freedom denied
So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion
And we fought on the Mexican side

We marched 'neath the green flag of Saint Patrick
Emblazoned with "Erin Go Bragh"
Bright with the harp and the shamrock
And "Libertad para Mexicana"
Just fifty years after Wolftone
Five thousand miles away
The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers
And they can talk as they may

(Chorus)

We fought them in Matamoros
While their volunteers were raping the nuns
In Monterey and Cerro Gordo
We fought on as Ireland's sons
We were the red-headed fighters for freedom
Amidst these brown-skinned women and men
Side by side we fought against tyranny
And I daresay we'd do it again

(Chorus)

We fought them in five major battles
Churobusco was the last
Overwhelmed by the cannons from Boston
We fell after each mortar blast
Most of us died on that hillside
In the service of the Mexican state
So far from our occupied homeland
We were heroes and victims of fate

(Chorus)

SPANISH VERSION:
http://members.aol.com/drovics/patsp.htm

Related Link: http://members.aol.com/drovics/patrickl.htm
author by iosaf (quite agrees with everyone on the 'loony left')publication date Sat Jan 25, 2003 11:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

what is happening to American greenpartymike?
spanish, irish, english, catholicism, NI.
you´re mixed up man!
That cosmopolitan stuff won´t help Ireland.
oh no.
The Irish people want security and prosperity.
People they can trust at the top. Gardaí who may have the occasional bad child prostitute touting apple amongst their ranks but they are in the main "a good bunch of lads", trial by judges who know, who have lived and learnt. They don´t need this joyriding element criticising everything eith their joint smoking ecological resistance. Academics that root their knowledge in the real world of practical career application in the modern multi-corporate world.
They don´t want spanish and irish.
oh no.
You´re mistaken there.
You were obviously born in another country.
and only pretending to carry Irish culture and identity and history. You´re a Plastic paddy!
& so too am I.
Plastic to the laminated core.
And i am not awaiting
"the recycling".
Best of Luck in the states Mike!
gurbh maith agat is acu freisin.


author by GreenPartyMike - Green Party USApublication date Sat Jan 25, 2003 07:27author email ollamhfaery at earthlink dot netauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Eoin,
Gracias companero. Este es la verdad, si,no? Yo creeo mucho en los heroes do los brigades de San Patricio. Y en Mexico, muchos compasinos dice este es la verdad tambien. Me espanol es Ok para un catholico de Estedes Unites y tambien me familia este catolicos de'l Irelande del norte.
Viva mis heroes, los brigades de San Patricio, Che y Bobby Sands.

Go raith maith agat mo chara.

author by Ruairipublication date Fri Jan 24, 2003 21:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

David Rovics is a fine singer songwriter. He wants to come back to Ireland in May but needs people to commit to organising gigs for him. Shouldn;t be too hard to pull a crowd. There are a few CDs knocking around (if anyone wants a copy email me at [email protected]).

Contact David via www.davidrovics.com

 
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