Fields of Athenry

from Hash It Out by Rocky Sullivan, Psy.D.

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“Fields of Athenry” was written in 1979 by Pete St. John (née Peter Mooney) about the 1840s, but I wanted to play it as if Big D and the Kid’s Table wrote it in 1999. And since Big D had 2 singers back then, Jeff Rosenstock was nice enough to sing this one with me. Thanks, Jeff! Thanks for letting me play in your bands for 12 years, Jeff!

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By a lonely prison wall,
I heard a young girl calling
Michael they are taking 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,
(YEAH, BABY! LET THE FREE BIRDS FLY!)
Our love was on the wing,
We had dreams and songs to sing,
Its 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."

CHORUS

By a lonely harbour wall,
She watched the last star falling,
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky,
Now she'll live in hope and pray,
For her love in Botney Bay ,
Its so lonely round the Fields Of Athenry.

CHORUS

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from Hash It Out, released October 30, 2020

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Rocky Sullivan, Psy.D. Oceanside, New York

With a head full of limericks and a belly full of potatoes, Mick Babe conscripted members of Bomb the Music Industry! and The Fad into The Rocky Sullivans, and they played Hibernian music stupidly fast and unnecessarily loud. Rocky Sullivan, Psy.D. is the band’s readeption. ... more

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