Is there a Tuam Song Yet?

ClovenHoof · 08-03-2017 10:50pm #1

I am not being disrespectful, but I am cynical about how in this country someone writes a song about these events and suddenly the criminal nature of the church crimes are washed away by a million wagons with acoustic guitars up down the country singing it for the next ten years.

I actually think these 'protest songs' do more damage than anything as the superficially emotionally trivialize something that should be seen a major crime.

Unfortunately, in this country we do better at writing hit songs about, than stopping or prosecuting church sex and child abuse criminals.

Poor Uncle Tom · 08-03-2017 10:55pm

Direct the anger where it should go, don't just lash out.

Noddyholder · 08-03-2017 10:57pm

SAW DOCTORS
N17 Lyrics

Well I didn't see much future
When I left the Christian brothers school
So I waved it goodbye with a wistful smile
And I left the girls of Tuam
And sometimes when I'm reminiscing
I see the prefabs and my old friends
And I know that they'll be changed or gone
By the time I get home again

Chorus:
And I wish I was on that N 17
(Stone walls and the grasses green)
Yes I wish I was on that N 17
(Stone walls and the grasses green)
Travelling with just my thoughts and dreams

its out years but no one really listened