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christy moore - 90 miles from dublin lyrics

i’m ninety miles from dublin town. i’m in a h+block cell
to help you understand my plight this story now i’ll tell
i’m on the blanket protest, my efforts must not fail
for i’m joined by men and women in the kesh and armagh gaol

it all began one morning i was dragged to castlerea
and though it was three years ago it seems like yesterday
for three days kicked and beaten, i then was forced to sign
confessions that convicted me of crimes that were not mine

sentenced in a diplock court my protest it began
i could not wear their prison gear i was a blanket man
i’ll not accept their status, i’ll not be criminalised
that’s the issue in the blocks for which we give our lives

over there in london town how they’d laugh and sneer
if they could only make us wear their loathsome prison gear
prisoners of war is what we are and that we must remain
the blanket protest cannot end till status we regain

i’ve been beaten round the romper room because i won’t say sir
i’ve been frogmarched down the landing and dragged back by the hair
i’ve suffered degradation, humility and pain
still the spirit does not falter, british torture is in vain

i’ve been held in scalding water while my skin with deck scrubs was torn
i’ve been scratched and cut from head to foot and thrown out on the floor
i’ve suffered mirror searches been probed by drunken bears
i’ve heard my comrades cry and scream, then mutter useless prayers
now with the news that’s coming in, our protest must not fail
for now we’re joined by thirty girls in armagh women’s gaol
pay attention irish men and irish women too
and show the free state rulers that their silence will not do

though its ninety miles to dublin town it seems so far away
there’s more attention to our plight in the usa
now you’ve heard the story of this filthy living h+ll
remember ninety miles away i’m still in my h+block cell

- christy moore lyrics

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