He’s admited it!
To quote from the article;
“I haven’t been able to do it myself. I got a guy to, no, I tell a lie, I downloaded a lot of my CD collection onto my computer, and then I put it onto the iPod,” he said.
Ahaha Mr. Adams! Copying music from a CD onto a computer actually contravenes British Law! Try denying that one now, eh?
But enough actual news about extremist politicians/Britain’s ridiculous copyright laws, lets try to guess what’s on the iPod of the North’s foremost Republican (Republican in the Irish sense, as in one that wants a single united republic on the island of Eire, and not in the American sense, as in conservative, or the rest of the world’s sense, one that wants a republic (the sense that makes the most sense. But enough of this wordplay);
(to save space, I’ve only included the 1st verse and chorus)
A Nation Once Again by The Wolfe Tones
I read of ancient freemen,
For Greece and Rome who bravely stood,
Three hundred men and three men;
And then I prayed I yet might see
Our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland, long a province, be.
A Nation once again!
A Nation once again,
A Nation once again,
And lreland, long a province, be
A Nation once again!
The Smashing of the Van by Chumbawamba
Attend you gallant Irishmen and listen for a while
I’ll sing to you the praises of the sons of Erin’s Isle
It’s of those gallant heroes who voluntarily ran
To release two Irish shamrocks from an English prison van
Hurrah! My lads for freedom, let’s all join heart and hand
May the Lord have mercy on the boys that helped to smash the van
The Irish Rover by The Pogues
On the fourth of July eighteen hundred and six
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the grand city hall in New York
‘Twas a wonderful craft, she was rigged fore-and-aft
And oh, how the wild winds drove her.
She’d got several blasts, she’d twenty-seven masts
And we called her the Irish Rover.
But that’s quite enough patriotic tunes to whip up any Irish heart for one night, so I’ll leave you with one that probably won’t be on his iPod;
Sunrise by The Divine Comedy
I was born in Londonderry
I was born in Derry City too
Oh what a special child
To see such things and still to smile
I know that there was something wrong
But I kept my head down and carried on
Who cares where national borders lie
Who cares whose laws you’re governed by
Who cares what name you call a town
Who’ll care when you’re six feet beneath the ground
In the interest of fairness, here’s a link to the Reverend Dr. Ian Paisley MP’s website, uniteirelandnow.ie.
