[Lyric] Free Belfast (Owen McDonagh)

Here's a song that's going ‘round
About events in Belfast town
The toast of all the famous music halls
On that well-known thoroughfare
A republic was declared
When the barricades went up along the Falls

Now the people's police, it's true
Are patrolling two by two
The finest bunch of boys you'll ever meet
From each radio there blasts
Out the news to Free Belfast
There's a customs post at the top of Leeson Street

From a secret hideaway
You can hear the music play
And news dеlivered daily on the hour
For thе boys in Albert Street
Here's a record soft and sweet
And wee Rosie also sends this to her flower
There's a céili every night
Beneath the moon's broad light
Where the vigilantes can relax at last
As the fiddles pump and play
People dance their cares away
Behind the barricades in Free Belfast

Now the people they have shown
They can run things on their own
The streets are swept and crime is dying fast
All for one and one for all
Is the democratic call
Behind the barricades in free Belfast