Banda Bassotti - Sam Song lyrics

I have been a Provo now for 15 years or more
With armalites and motorbombs I thought
I knew the score but now we have a weapon
We've never used before
The Brit's are looking worried - and
Their going to worry more!

I started off with petrol bomb
And throwing bricks and stones
With a 100 more lads like
Me I never was alone
But soon and learned that bricks and
Stones won't drive the Brit's away
It wasn't very long
Who did I joined? I joined the IRA!

Tiocfaidh Ar La, sing "Up the 'RA"
Up the 'RA, up the 'RA
SAM missiles, in the sky

Then there came Internment in
The year of '71
The Brit's thought we were beaten that
We were on the run
On that early August morning they
Kicked'in our back door
But for every man they took away
They missed a hundred more

I spent eight years in the cages
I had time to think and plan
For though they locked away a boy
I walked out a man
And there's only one thing that I learned
Will in their cell I lay
The Brit's will never leave us
Until their - until their blown away!

Tiocfaidh Ar La, sing "Up the 'RA"
Up the 'RA, up the 'RA
SAM missiles, in the sky

All through the days of Hunger strike
I watched my comrades die
While in the streets of Belfast you
Could hear the women cry
I can't forget the massacre
That Friday at Loughgall
I salute my fallen comrades
As I watch the choppers fall

Tiocfaidh Ar La, sing "Up the 'RA"
Up the 'RA, up the 'RA
Tiocfaidh Ar La, sing "Up the 'RA"
Up the 'RA, up the 'RA
Tiocfaidh Ar La, sing "Up the 'RA"
Up the 'RA, up the 'RA
SAM missiles, in the sky in the sky