"Sir Charles Trevelyan was secy of the treasury for Irish relief. When the potato failed, he said it was God's punishment of the I "Sir Charles Trevelyan was secy of the treasury for Irish relief. When the potato failed, he said it was God's punishment of the Irish and 'an opportunity to clear the land of surplus population'. He exported Irish grain (on the same ships as fleeing peasants) for the 'free market'. Trevelyan's relief corn was inedible. His cold heartedness is believed to have increased Irish deaths. No country infested by the potato blight had death on such a scale."
By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
"Michael, they have taken you away,
For you stole Trevelyan's corn,
So the young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."
Chorus:
Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.
By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young man calling
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
Against the famine and the crown,
I rebelled, they cut me down.
Now you must raise our child with dignity."
By a lonely harbor wall, she watched the last star fall
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
For she lived to hope and pray for her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.
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