Irish Song Lyrics 
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Echo's Of My Past Lyrics by Joe Dunn music by Kenn Gordon 
Intro 
The checkpoints and the baracades, have all been taken down As again I walk the streets of my native Derry Town Along its lonely allyways , and bustling new highways My thoughts of my troubled youth, in oh so many ways 
The echos of explosions, from the violence of my past Announcments of the deaths, on the six o'clock Newscast 
The rise of civil rights, I had followed from the start With hopes of new beginings, in a young mans foolish heart Marches and demonstrations, they were our way to go With banners and speaches, we thought that we could show 
Chorus 
The answer to our peaceful ways, was to put us all down With the R.U.C. and Specials, and the forces of the Crown My options were few, and the choice I made was clear To the ranks of Derry's provo's, I became a volunteer 
Chorus 
Explosives and the Armalite, were now my tools of trade In a Hellish confrontation, that the British forces made Safe houses, on the run, became my way of life No time for youthful pastimes, or to find myself a wife 
Chorus 
Forced to flee the confines, of the Cragin and Bogside To be be there any longer, would be my suicide I was captured on the border, revolver in my hand Then taken by the Army, a token trial to stand 
Chorus 
Twenty years confinement, for my fight against the Crown The sentence I most dreaded, not to see my Derry Town A man who lost his youth, spent in a prison cell Who can return once more, to his home in Brandy Well Chorus X 2 Outro