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the legend - terry o'neill lyrics

[verse 1]
i went to see a legend, just the other night
at the yankee stadium underneath the lights
i heard a man speaking after years and years in jail
his name it was mandela, and he came to tell his tale

[verse 2]
the crowd cheered him loudly, but then silence fell
as he spoke about the hard years in a south african cell
although he was free, his heart was feeling the pain
for his country and his people are still a part of that chain

[verse 3]
he said he hoped that we would join him
as he walked down freedom’s path
that these roads would be the hardest, oh but they would be the last
and to join our hands together so that we might be as one
and to bring ourselves to the cause so this battle would be won

[verse 4]
i went home to bed that evening, went to asleep and i had a dream
i was standing in the pouring rain, in an irish field of green
and all around the headstones were the martyrs of the past
i stood there with silence and they spoke to me at last

[verse 5]
“kevin barry is my name and i died in a cell
they wanted the name’s of my comrades but this i would not tell”
“and i am roger cas*m*nt and i was shot in london town
for bringing german rifles to the lonely banna strand”
[verse 6]
“james connolly is my name, the working people are my life
when they shot me down in kilmainham jail with strife”
“and i am padraig pe*rs*, i was shot down by the foe
i read the proclamation at steps of the gpo”

[verse 7]
the last voice that i heard said “my name is bobby sands
and it’s good to hear mandela’s words a*ringing through the land
i want to hear them in belfast, in derry and tyrone
maybe then those english soldiers will know it’s time to go home”

[verse 8]
i woke up in the morning, i remembered them all
and who would believed that they knocked down the berlin wall?
and nelson mandela, could this really be?
maybe now we will see ireland reunited and free
maybe now we will see ireland reunited and free

- terry oneill lyrics

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