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Verse 1

  O me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came

  That city I will never see again

  For in the town of Belfast I spent many happy days

  I love that town in oh so many ways

  For it's there I spent my childhood and found for me a wife

  I then set out to make for her a life

  But all my young ambitions met with bitterness and hate

  I soon found myself inside a prison gate

Chorus

  And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun

  When I think of all the deeds that you have done

  You had plundered many nations divided many lands

  You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand

  And you brought this reign of terror to my land