Name: The Plough & Stars
Duration: P00H03M51S
Description: Plough and Stars is a song that provides brief windows into the tumultuous History of Ireland. A complex story of struggle, loss and triumph but ultimately, hope. This song is not a pacifist's song but rather an anti rebel song celebrating the turn in attitude and the tendency in recent years to put down the gun.

The Plough & Stars

from The Femme Fatale of Maine by The Jeremiahs

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Plough and Stars is a song that provides brief windows into the tumultuous History of Ireland. A complex story of struggle, loss and triumph but ultimately, hope. This song is not a pacifist's song but rather an anti rebel song celebrating the turn in attitude and the tendency in recent years to put down the gun.

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There’s a broken throne of a fallen clan
Way up North in a lonesome glen
9 years fought 300 lost
When they sailed away the die was cast.

From Brest they sailed across the main
They turned their backs to the winter sun
Driven hard like a nail out from Bantry Bay
Any union of creed well it came undone

Chorus
This is no sad song sung for you
It’ll ring out bold, it will ring out true
And come the morning we’ll rise again
And we’ll break the chains from the plough and stars
Break the chains from the plough and stars
break the chains from the plough and stars

The seeds of souls on fallow ground
While food aplenty did surround
The mounds of grain grew even higher
Those empty bellies fuelled the fire

Pawning all we had to quell those hungry screams
During 6 months sad in the Lockout of 13
‘Let us arise’ came Larkin's call
Let the poor man rise and the rich man fall.

Chorus

The sky ran away on ten young men
Dead bodies cast
Waif like from a dirty cell
No skylarks song will we hear tonight
Just the cries and the anguish of the peoples plight

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from The Femme Fatale of Maine, released July 8, 2021

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The Jeremiahs Dublin, Ireland

The Jeremiahs is an Irish folk band that comprises four musicians who have come together with the common goal of writing, composing and performing folk songs and music.

From Dublin is singer Joe Gibney on vocals. On fiddle, viola and vocals is County Cork’s Niamh Varian-Barry (formerly of Solas). On flutes is the French born Julien Bruneteau and on Guitar is Dublin born James Ryan. ... more

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