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Don't Go Over That Hill

from PROGRESS by Adam Murphy

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We are we and ye are ye
And we don’t like ye because we’re not like ye
So it has to be that we must be better than ye

We are from here and ye are from there
I thank gods we’re from here ‘cos ye do things queerly
While we are all decent and normal and fair

We’re all the same like a monotone shade
And we speak in one tongue, it’s straight and it’s plain
And understood by everyone who counts

Don’t go over that hill my darling
Son those people are bad
If they catch you they may kill you
So you better draw first blood

Don’t go over that hill oh baby
Those people there are not real humans
They don’t think or feel as you do
And they’re very paranoid

“But I met one on the ridge oh Daddy
Said she’s told the same about us
And what of those who live among us
I suppose some of them are okay?”

We are the we and they are the they
And we are of here and they belong there
And there they must stay unless they are our slaves

Because we’re all the same – well we were till ye came
And ye sullied the pool with your impurities
Now it is time to get back to those good old days

Don’t go over that hill my dearest
Unless you want their stuff
I hear that they have gold aplenty
And we can never have enough

Don’t be taken by their propaganda
The just love to slander us
Harden your heart to piteous faces
They don’t deserve a chance in fact….

“Don’t even go there oh Daddy darling
The jungle laws have changed
Grow up out of the savage instincts
Or that hate will drive you insane”

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from PROGRESS, released October 12, 2020

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Adam Murphy Ireland

Adam Murphy was born and raised in Cork, Ireland, but is a long-time Galway resident after periods living and working in Europe, USA, and UK.
‘Progress’ is his ninth album of original material. Each collection has a discrete flavour and is a set of thematically linked pieces. His work has been aired regularly on RTE and other radio stations in Ireland and abroad, most recently in the Far East.
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