The Wolfe Tones — Radio Toor-I-Li-Ay

You don't play our songs on radio You say they're too political! Who controls the mind, where's the mind's control? For the music on the airwaves Follows empty minds, those empty heads Play songs of sex and drugs instead Don't tell them how it really is Won't MI5 look after you, control your thoughts Feed information to your hearts and minds To save you all from thinkin', thinkin', thinkin', thinkin' (Chorus) Come all ye witches and you wizards Conjurers and tricksters Change our past! Into a future grand So come all ye gombeen men and seáníns Lackies and West Britons Sing, sing for me! A rousing rebel song And all the kids in school will sing along So, this is your democracy Be silent or agree with me! We'll revise our past, we'll change our past To suit this time and moment For things weren't really all that bad And Ireland's past was not that sad For otherwise you must be mad Queen Victoria gave two thousand pounds To the dogs and cats home here in Ireland During the famine, she did To keep them all from starvin', starvin', starvin', starvin' (Chorus) Come all ye witches and you wizards Conjurers and tricksters Change our past! Into a future grand So come all ye gombeen men and seáníns Lackies and West Britons Sing, sing for me! A rousing rebel song And all the kids in school will sing along