In the battered streets of Belfast
You can hear the people cry
For justice long denied them
And their cry will fill the sky.
But the winds of change are blowing
Bringing hope from dark despair.
A new day is dawning,
You can feel it [in the air.
The winds are singing freedom
They sing it everywhere
They sing it on the mountainside
And in the city square.
They sing of a new day dawning
When our people shall be free
Come and join the song of freedom
Let it ring from sea to sea.
Too long our people suffered
In misery and tears
And foreign rulers used our land
For about eight hundred years
It's a long road has no turning
And I know that soon will be
A day of justice dawning
When our people shall be free.
There's a time laid out for laughing
And there's a time laid out to weep
There's a time laid out for sowing
And a time laid out to reap.
There's a time to love your brother
There's a time for hate to cease.
If you sow the seeds of justice
Then you'll reap the fruits of peace.
T & M: Tommy Makem