Verse 1
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  O me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came
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  That city I will never see again
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  For in the town of Belfast I spent many happy days
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  I love that town in oh so many ways
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  For it's there I spent my childhood and found for me a wife
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  I then set out to make for her a life
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  But all my young ambitions met with bitterness and hate
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  I soon found myself inside a prison gate


Chorus
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  And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun
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  When I think of all the deeds that you have done
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  You had plundered many nations divided many lands
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  You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand
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  And you brought this reign of terror to my land