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Is there a Tuam Song Yet?

  • 08-03-2017 11:50PM
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭


    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.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Someone text that priest woman shaven head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    You want me to write the theme Tuam, sing the theme Tuam...?


  • Site Banned Posts: 35 ROVER_1912




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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    This is the opening Ed sheeran needs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,446 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Weird


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Queen have done it already...

    'test tuam babies being born
    mothers fathers dead and gone
    it's a miracle...'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,235 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Has been for a while:



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