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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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the trouble all went down.
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The Defence of the Realm Act
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was invoked by the Crown.
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They imposed martial law
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upon old Limerick town.
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They made the local people foot the bill.
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The local trains and workers' council
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met for twelve long hours
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And said we will not recognise
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the British Army's powers
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This city is the people's,
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we reclaim it now as ours
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It ever was and shall be ever still
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We are the liberate So viets
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We only answer to the people's plea
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We care no more for their martial law
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Than the British Army,
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curse for you and me
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curse for you and me
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The printing workers laboured
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through the darkness of the night
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to resist the Army's might
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Within two hours the city walls
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proclaimed a general strike
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And Limerick responded,
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said a call
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Workers in their thousands
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were parading through the streets
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The Irish Times was horrified
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and called for their defeat
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But the people were in charge now,
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So they held the torch
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of freedom for us all
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We are the limerick soviets,
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we only answer to the people's plea
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We care no more for their martial law
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cares for you and me
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cares for you and me
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The So viet limerick,
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it lasted two weeks long
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A forgotten revolution,
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overlooked by history's song
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John Cronin and his strike
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committee's beacon has not gone
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It lights the path to justice for us still
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We are the liberate soviets
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We own the answer to
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the people's plea
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We can no more for them marshal law
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And the British army
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curse for you and me
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curse for you and me
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We are the liberate soviets
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We own the answer to
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the people's plea
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We couldn't war for their martial law,
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that's what you and me.
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that's what you and me.
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that's what you and me.
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