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Verse 1

O me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came

That city I will never see again

For in the town of Belfast I spent many happy days

I love that town in oh so many ways

For it's there I spent my childhood and found for me a wife

I then set out to make for her a life

But all my young ambitions met with bitterness and hate

I soon found myself inside a prison gate

Chorus

And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun

When I think of all the deeds that you have done

You had plundered many nations divided many lands

You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand

And you brought this reign of terror to my land