Let the People Sing (album)
1972 studio album by The Wolfe Tones
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Let the People Sing is the fifth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album features a number of political songs including Come Out Ye Black and Tans and A Nation Once Again. James Connolly is about the execution by firing squad of the socialist revolutionary after the Easter Rising of 1916, whilst Long Kesh is a song which protests IRA imprisonment at Long Kesh prison.[1][2] Sean South of Garryowen honours the legacy of Irish Republican soldier Seán South, who died during an attempted raid of an RUC station in Brookesbourgh in 1957.[3]
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| Released | 1972 | |||
| Genre | Irish folk | |||
| Label | Dolphin Records | |||
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Track listing
- The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
- Sean South of Garryowen
- Twice Daily
- James Connolly
- Don't Stop Me Now
- Taim in Arrears
- Come Out Ye Black and Tans
- On the One Road
- The Men Behind the Wire
- For Ireland, I'd Not Tell Her Name
- Paddy Lie Back
- First of May
- Long Kesh
- A Nation Once Again
