Let the People Sing (album)

Let the People Sing is the fifth album by Irish folk and rebel band The Wolfe Tones. The album features a number of political songs including Come Out Ye Black and Tans and A Nation Once Again. James Connolly is about the execution by firing squad of the socialist revolutionary after the Easter Rising of 1916, whilst Long Kesh is a song which protests IRA imprisonment at Long Kesh prison. Sean South of Garryowen is rather controversial as it honours the legacy of Irish Republican soldier Seán South who was a prominent fascist and anti-Semitic conspiracist.[1]

Let The People Sing
Studio album by
Released1972
GenreIrish folk
LabelDolphin Records
The Wolfe Tones chronology
Rifles of the I.R.A.
(1970)
Let The People Sing
(1972)
'Till Ireland a Nation
(1974)

Track listing edit

  1. The Snowy-Breasted Pearl
  2. Sean South of Garryowen
  3. Twice Daily
  4. James Connolly
  5. Don't Stop Me Now
  6. Taim in Arrears
  7. Come Out Ye Black and Tans
  8. On the One Road
  9. The Men Behind the Wire
  10. For Ireland, I'd Not Tell Her Name
  11. Paddy Lie Back
  12. First of May
  13. Long Kesh
  14. A Nation Once Again

References edit

  1. ^ Wiser, Danny (21 December 2020). "IRELAND: Let The People Sing - The Wolfe Tones". 200worldalbums.com. Retrieved 25 October 2023.