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IT HAPPENED ON THE KASHMIR ROAD IN THE YEAR OF 69
WHEN THE B-MEN AND THE UVF ALL FORMED A STURDY LINE.
THE
RUC WERE ACTIVE TOO,
AND THEY ALL BEGAN TO SLAUGHTER FROM THE ROOF OF ST. GALL'S SCHOOL.
THEY THEN
BEGAN ON BOMBAY STREET WITH LOOTING ALL AROUND.
THEN THE FLAME FROM PETROL BOMBS AND EACH HOUSE WAS TO THE GROUND,
A YOUNG DEFENSE CAME TOWARDS THEM WITH STONES AND LUMPS OF LEAD,
BUT ALAS NO USE AGAINST THESE GUNS, FOR GERALD
MACAULY HE LAY DEAD.
A BULLET PIERCED HIS PROUD YOUNG HEART AND BRAVELY HE DID FALL,
FOR IRELAND
AND THE KASHMIR ROAD THE LAD HAD GIVEN ALL.
THE DAY GREW ON AND DARKNESS FELL AND THE FIRING NEVER CEASED,
THE
OUEEN'S ARMY CAME TO SAVE US, AND THEY SAID "TO KEEP THE PEACE."
OUR OWN MONASTERY WAS UNDER FIRE
AND THIS WAS OUR FIRST RUN,
WE HELD THEM BACK WITH PETROL BOMBS BUT WE NEVER FIRED A GUN.
WE DEFENDED OUR
WHOLE DISTRICT IN THIS HOPELESS SORT OF WAY,
BUT THE KASHMIR ROAD WAS STANDING WHEN THE DAWN BROKE THROUGH THE DAY.
AND WE KNOW THE DAMAGE THAT THEY DID, AND THE HEARTACHES THEY BROUHT,
WE KNOW TOO WE WERE UNPREPARED
AND SADLY WE WERE CAUGHT.
BUT TO THINK THEY MIGHT COME BACK AGAIN BRINGS US NO COWARDLY FEARS,
FOR THE NEXT
TIME WE WILL MATCH THEM WITH THE KASHMIR VOLUNTEERS.
FERGY
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