Luyện nghe bài hát The Birmingham Six

Birmingham, 1974, there occurred a bloody
Twenty-one people killed by bombs, reeled in horror
Within hours the British State found the first available scapegoats--
Five Irish men for Belfast, about to board the boat
And this is their story, very sad, but
Of how six men were falsely imprisoned for something didn't do
And if any should say, "British justice is the best in the world"
them, "Well of course it is, for the vested interests it serves"
The men were to Morkham to be tested for explosives
Tests have since proved ambiguous but were at the time held as conclusive
One scientists' word was to condemn the Irish men
Like vultures the moved in to begin interrogations
In the circumstances how well do you the men's rights were observed?
The cops they had the bombers; do you think they kept their judgement reserved?
Does 'innocent proven guilty' have any meaning at all
When alone in a police house surrounded by cops being kicked around like a ball
In a dark windowless room half a detectives were waiting
Billy Power was thrown in, the serious questions about to
He was kicked and hit and from all sides, spread-eagled against the wall
They kicked him and hit him again, a voice the dark said, "Stretch his balls"
Soon after, Billy surrendered, screamed, "I'll tell you anything you want me to say"
Sat in his own excretia, he could hardly speak he remained in a
Whilst cops compiled his of how he planted the bombs
They him with the treatment again so Billy signed a confession
Thursday night Friday night, the five men were took back to Birmingham
The threats and the violence continued--a taste of was to come
Deprived of and sleep, all part of procedure to break the men
Johnny Walker blacked out twice; they untied his hands while he his confession
And Richard McIlkenny was threatened a gun
The cop said it was OK to shoot him, that the officer'd given permission
The cop him if he was going to sign, put the gun against his head
Playing Russian roulette with a blank; when he banged McIlkenny thought he was
Hugh Callaghan, a man, was picked up in Berm and tortured
He, too, done it but they made him sign a confession to mass murder
Six men kept in isolation no contact with other
And it weren't until Monday that they each got a duty solicitor
Still separate each unbuttoned his shirt to how he'd been beaten up
The solicitors, filling in legal aid forms, said there wasn't time and to look
The only obvious injury, Walker's black eye in court that day
he tried to unbotton his shirt all the majistrates said, "Let's take him away"
Leland staged a walkout, their banners read "Hang the IRA"
The labor government at the time rushed through the PTA
In their war on the Irish people the British vengeance
Despite glaring omissions in the so-called the six men hadn't a chance
The judge their claims, said it would've meant there'd been a conspiracy
Between fifteen officers two different forces, as if it was an impossibility
The police in fact heroes, got their promotion and victory medals
The six men got life imprisonment and fifteen years on still in jail
The men protested innocence but it fell mainly on deaf ears
wanted to bring the policemen to trial, the appeal took seven years
Lord Denning dismissed their out of hand, saying "These actions cannot go on"
What he really meant was the machine could never admit it's done wrong
Another six years, another appeal, set of judiciary
To uphold the convictions as safe and satisfactory
For if it ever gets out that the State judges wrong, well what would say?
We'd say, "We who are real enemies are now", and we'd form our own IRA
Oh let me tell a story, very sad, but
Of how six men were falsely for something they didn't do
And if any should say, "British is the very best in the world"
Tell them, "Well of course it is, for the vested it serves"
For as as we remain ignorant they'll fight their war against Ireland
For as long as we remain silent imprison any they want
For as long as we keep our shut they'll continue to contain us
For as long as we remain passive they'll trample us into the
Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Richard McIlkenny, Johnny Walker, Gerry Hunter, and Billy
Still fighting for their fifteen long years on
spirits shall remain when our State is dead
When our State is
When our is dead and gone