1969 Pop Goes Northern Ireland


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# Call out the instigators

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# Because there's something

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# In the air

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# We got to get together

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# Sooner or later

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# Because the revolution's here

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# And you know it's right

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# And you know that it's right

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# We have got to get it together

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# We have got to get it together now

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# Block off the streets and houses

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# Because there's something

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# In the air

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# We got to get together sooner or later

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# Because the revolution's here

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# And you know it's right

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# And you know that it's right

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# We have got to get it together... #

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# We're caught in a trap

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# I can't walk out... #

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Ever since the partition of Ireland,

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after the bloody struggles of half a century ago,

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power in this little parliament at Stormont

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has been monopolised by one party, the Unionist Party,

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devoted to the British Crown and to the Protestant religion.

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# When you don't believe a word I say

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# We can't go on together

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# With suspicious minds

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# Suspicious minds... #

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Well, it's not a question of my own position.

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It is a question of the future sanity in Northern Ireland.

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This battle is the old battle which our forefathers fought

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at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne.

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CHEERING

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In the coming ten days,

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you're going to hear the marching feet of Protestants on the march!

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CHEERING

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# Je t'aime, je t'aime

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# Oui, je t'aime

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# Moi non plus

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# Oh, mon amour

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# Comme la vague

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# Irresolue... #

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Major Bunting, how did you first become associated with Dr Paisley?

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I became his...or he became my spiritual father as, er...

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I was, er...converted

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to Christ through his ministry about three years ago.

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-What do you think of him as a man?

-He's a wonderful man.

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Are you suggesting that the Roman Catholic Church is trying to undermine Ulster?

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The Roman Catholic Church has never lost sight of its primary objective

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of absorbing Ulster into a 32-county Republic of Ireland.

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Well, we're crashing out of Belfast there

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to go back almost as abruptly

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to Northern Ireland,

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because I gather declaration is just about due.

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It's the one in which Major Bunting is standing,

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who is the Reverend Ian Paisley's right-hand man,

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so let's go back again to Northern Ireland for that declaration.

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Here it comes now at long last. Sorry to be a bit Irish about that.

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The result of election in the Belfast constituency of Victoria,

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and I declare

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that Robert Hamilton Bradford

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has been duly elected to serve

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as member for the constituency.

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Mr Returning Officer,

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I would like to second

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the vote of thanks,

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but not the audacious, insulting remarks to the Loyalists of Bannside

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that have been offered by Dr Simpson here this evening.

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I would remind Dr Simpson

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that in the Bannside

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there are 6,331 true-blue Protestants,

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who will never bow their knee to the capitulation policy of Captain O'Neill.

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# If paradise is half as nice

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# As heaven that you take me to

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# Who needs paradise?

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# I'd rather have you

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# La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la

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# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

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# La-la, la-la-la

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# La-la-la, la-la

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# If paradise is half as nice

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# As heaven that you take me to

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# Who needs paradise?

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# I'd rather have you

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# Oh, yes, I'd rather have you

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# La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la

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# La-la, la-la, la-la-la... #

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She says the Northern Ireland government is corrupt,

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bigoted and self-interested.

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MUSIC: White Room by Cream

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I would condemn violence on Saturday, particularly the violence

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of an organised force of 1,000 supposedly impartial policemen

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terrorising the inhabitants of the Bogside.

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I'm interested to know where you get the figure of 1,000 policemen.

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If there were 1,000 policemen in Londonderry on Saturday,

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well, then, I'm a Dutchman, because I know how many there were.

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You wouldn't be the only Dutchman, sir, who invaded Northern Ireland.

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# This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

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# Age of Aquarius

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# Aquarius!

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# Aquarius!

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# Harmony and understanding

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# Sympathy and trust abounding

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# No more falsehoods or derisions

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# Golden living, dreams of visions

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# Mystic crystal revelation

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# And the mind's true liberation Aquarius... #

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We wish to make it clear that one man, one vote will not satisfy us.

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# Aquarius! #

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I must warn...you

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of the power of the irreconcilables

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and extremists whose activities could yet lead to our total ruin.

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While good men sleep

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and honest men play their golf and their bridge...

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..these other, with unwavering zeal, one might almost say Communistic zeal,

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are chipping away at the foundations of our democracy.

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The first is...Major the Right Honourable JD Chichester Clark.

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The second is...

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..the Right Honourable Brian Falconer.

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# Ever since I was a young boy

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# I played the silver ball... #

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To Best! Oh, a beautiful goal!

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# But I ain't seen nothing like him

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# In any amusement hall

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# The deaf, dumb and blind kid

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# Sure plays a mean pinball

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# He stands like a statue

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# Becomes part of the machine

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# Feeling all the bumpers... #

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# Get your motor running Head out on the highway

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# Looking for adventure

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# And whatever comes our way

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# Yeah, darling, gonna make it happen

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# Take the world in a love embrace

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# Fire all of the guns at once and

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# Explode into space

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# I like smoke and lightning

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# Heavy metal thunder

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# Racing with the wind

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# And the feeling that I'm under

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# Yeah, darling, gonna make it happen

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# Take the world in a love embrace

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# Fire all of the guns at once and Explode into space... #

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We are not doing this for publicity, mate.

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We're defending this area against the police slaughtering the people.

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This is why we are not surrendering this time to the police, nor are we having any truces.

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The police have come in here far too often, and we are holding this area against them.

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If the police just walk in, we will just clobber every last one of them.

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# Born to be wild

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# Get your motor running

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# Head out on the highway... #

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The behaviour of the Dublin government has been deplorable,

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and it has been tailor-made to inflame opinion on both sides.

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The moving of army units, the calling up of reserves,

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the absurd approaches for United Nations intervention

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have all been moves of almost incredible clumsiness and ineptitude.

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# Yes, I told you

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# That the light goes up and down

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# Don't you notice

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# How the wheel goes round... #

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We've come in to help the civil power restore order.

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What we want to do is to give people time to settle down.

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# Before they bring the curtain down Whoohoo... #

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To ask for military help is an extreme step, and it involves troops in the most disagreeable of tasks.

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Nevertheless, once the situation clearly deteriorated

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to the point where the civil power required assistance,

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we did not hesitate to seek it.

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# Talkin' about a girl that looks quite like you

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# She didn't have the time to wait in the queue

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# She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle. #

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What happened to your house?

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It was completely demolished. I have absolutely nothing, not a thing,

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and the same thing applies to every person in the street.

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At the very least about 200 people, men, women and children,

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lost everything, and if it hadn't been for this school,

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I don't know where I would have come to.

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It has been very rough indeed.

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This has been worse than the Blitz ever was.

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# Once I believed that when love came to me

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# It would come with rockets, bells... #

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A soldier killed. Thank God. Thank God they killed soldiers.

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# But with me and you

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# It just started quietly and grew

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# And believe it or not

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# Now there's something groovy and good

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# About whatever we got And it's getting better

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# Growing stronger, warm and wilder

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# Getting better every day

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# Better every day... #

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SIREN BLARES

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# I don't feel all turned on and starry-eyed... #

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The Falls Road is closed.

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If you wish to get to any side streets that run off Falls Road,

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you must go through the back streets of the respective sides.

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Thank you.

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You can also help us by moving away from this barrier wire here.

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I'm quite clear...that there are

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real and deep-seated...

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..feelings of injustice and grievance

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and feelings of discrimination

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held by a number of people in Northern Ireland.

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The fear is genuine.

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The feelings are genuine.

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And no society can be stable unless those fears are examined

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and, if they are found justified, removed

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by action taken to ensure that there is fair play all the way round.

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# Your love is lifting me higher

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# Than I've ever been lifted before... #

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That's a good one, isn't it?

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That's good.

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# So keep it up

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# Quench my desire

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# And I'll be at your side forever more

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# You know your love

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# Keep on lifting

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# Higher

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# Higher and higher

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# I said your love

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# Keep on... #

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You're not permitted to go in.

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-You were given a reason.

-What...

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Oh, now, you heard it yourself.

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There is no reason at all.

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It was a bunch of lies.

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He told us first of all that the press conference was being held outside,

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then he admitted that it was being held inside but we weren't allowed in.

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You and I, we haven't fought before.

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Well, I would like to know whether you would arrest me

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if I would attempt to go in.

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No, please don't.

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# That's why your love

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# Keep on lifting me

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# Higher

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# Higher and higher... #

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Will you all disperse, please?

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Will you all disperse? Thank you!

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Well, as far as I can see, it has been going on this months,

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this years from Mr Paisley came into the picture.

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He has stirred the Protestants up against the Catholics.

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For years, they lived in peace,

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but he couldn't have that, nor he wouldn't have it,

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and he stirred the Protestant people up agin the Catholics.

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And as regards the Catholic people being lazy,

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the Catholic boys and men around this district or any Catholic district

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can't pick and choose their jobs, as that woman has told you.

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The Protestants gets the pick of the jobs.

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They're out for civil rights

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and they've no civil rights to be out for.

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You take a man here of a Protestant who is working

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and his basic wage is £12-£14 per week.

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You take a man in a Roman Catholic side who has no call to work.

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His wages of the government are £20-£25 a week.

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Can you see any hatred in Northern Ireland?

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Who is on the wrong end of the stick?

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# The road is long

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# With many a winding turn... #

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How long do you think

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that you can go on doing this job

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without getting really fed up with it?

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-We're fed up now.

-We'd like to...

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-I'd like to go home now.

-And me.

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I'm fed up with it.

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# But I'm strong

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# Strong enough to carry him... #

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Ladies and gentlemen,

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I would like now to introduce you

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to the CO of the Paratroop Regiment

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and also some of his members, his fellow officers of his mess.

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I would like you now to give them a hearty welcome into the Shankill.

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# His welfare is my concern... #

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Ladies, I'm scared stiff tonight, I...

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-LAUGHTER

-You should be!

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One of the soldiers the other day was being called by the kids,

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and had been again, I know this for a long time, a Fenian B.

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LAUGHTER

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As you know well enough, because I've watched you clip them around the ear during the day.

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He stepped out of line and battered him around the ear.

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He shouldn't have done that.

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The little boy went in and told his dad that this had happened,

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and immediately his dad came whistling down the road with a hammer.

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-SURPRISED LAUGHTER

-That soldier was in England the next morning.

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I think if we look upon this

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rather like, er...Cyprus,

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there we had

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communal trouble between two peoples who were easily recognisable.

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You had your...your Turkish Cypriot and you had your Greek Cypriot.

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They were quite easily definable.

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But here in Ulster,

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the British soldier is dealing with his own countrymen,

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who all look alike and all speak alike,

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and it's very confusing for him.

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# Ooh-ooh, I bet you're wondering how I knew

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# About your plans to make me blue... #

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-Ulster is not for sale!

-CHEERING

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# Between the two of us guys

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# You know I love you more

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# It took me by surprise, I'm afraid

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# When I found out yesterday

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# Don't you know that

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# I heard it through the grapevine?

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# Not much longer would you be mine

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# Oh, I heard it through the grapevine

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# Oh, I'm just about to lose my mind

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# Honey, honey, yeah

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# Heard it through the grapevine

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# Not much longer would you be my baby

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# Ooh-ooh-ooh

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# I know a man ain't supposed to cry

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# But these tears

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# I can't hold inside... #

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The coffin was carried by members of the dead man's platoon,

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policemen who had been with him in the Shankill Road

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on the night that he was shot.

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There were also men present from the country districts.

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His widow followed the coffin out of the chapel.

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The dead constable's cap and belt were placed on the coffin as it was lifted into the hearse.

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What happened exactly?

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Well, me and the husband were sitting in the house on Sunday evening,

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and it all happened about a quarter to four.

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A knock came to the window, and there was about 50 of them, Protestants,

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and I answered the door, and said I was to take...

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they ordered us out inside of an hour.

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And they told us if we didn't get out, they were going to burn us out.

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-When did you move out of Hooker St?

-Sunday.

-Sunday, Sunday night.

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And why did you move out?

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Well, there were saying to get out or they would burn us out,

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and there was a couple of people passing, they said,

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"Them orange Bs should every one be burned out,

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"and we will have them burned out before tonight's out."

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We were frightened, and I went up to my daughter's,

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and when I came back in, everything was sitting in the street.

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# As the snow flies

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# On a cold and grey Chicago morn

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# And a poor little baby child

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# Is born in the ghetto

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# In the ghetto

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# And his mama cries... #

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And I have here in my hand a petition which was signed last night

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by the residents of Disraeli Street, Leopold Street, Ottawa Street and the surrounding district.

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-What does the petition say?

-The petition says, "We the people wish it to be known

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"that in the cause of peace we think that at this time

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"we should be better if the people of other faiths would stay out."

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How do you feel about the idea of having this peace line?

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Oh, certainly, as long as both sides agree.

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Do you think they will?

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Well, up here, you can assure they will,

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up here because we didn't want trouble,

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because we were the ones who was attacked.

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# And the hungry little boy with the runny nose

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# Plays in the street

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# As a cold wind blows

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# In the ghetto

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# In the ghetto

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# And his hunger burns

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# So he starts to roam the streets at night

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# And he learns how to steal

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# And he learns how to fight in the ghetto... #

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Pirate radio stations

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have exacerbated the tension

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with their own peculiar blend

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of politics and provocation.

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Up until a few days ago, three stations were on the air -

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Radio Free Belfast on the Catholic side, Radio Ulster and Radio Orange on the Protestant.

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-How have your relations been with your neighbours here?

-Oh, very good.

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-How long have you been living here?

-Over a year. Two years in February.

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-Did you live in this area before these flats were built?

-No, no.

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-So you've moved into the area?

-I've moved in.

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And if you were ill, how would you expect your neighbours to behave?

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I don't want my photo taken.

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Well, they're very good neighbours to me.

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I would say nothing about them.

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They told me to stay on, and nothing's ever happened to me.

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-Are you worried at all about living here?

-No, no, no. No.

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# I see a bad moon rising

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# I see trouble on the way

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# I see earthquakes and lightning

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# I see bad times today... #

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I believe that the IRA have masterminded this whole operation.

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They have infiltrated and used organisations

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such as the civil rights movement, the people's democracy.

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# I hear hurricanes a-blowing

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# I know the end is coming soon

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# I fear rivers overflowing... #

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MUSIC: Living In The Past by Jethro Tull

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Here on the peace line is a recreational centre

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for the troops occupying this part of the peace line,

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but the purpose of it is so they can come together with their friends,

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who will, I hope, come from all parts of the community.

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You think Christmas will be a really special occasion for this?

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I think it's very important that it should be,

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because I should like to feel that it would set the tone for 1970.

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# Happy and I'm smiling

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# Walking miles to drink your water

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# You know I'd love to love you

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# And above you there's no other

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# We'll go walking out

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# While others shout of war's disaster

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# Oh, we won't give in

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# Let's go living in the past... #

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