Let the People Sing

Let The People Sing is an Irish folk song celebrating the power of music in a people's struggle for freedom. It frequently appears on the set list of many Celtic and Irish Rebel bands, such as Eire Og and Charlie & The Bhoys.It is also frequently heard at Celtic Park on match days

Lyrics

For those who are in love
There's a song that's warm and tender
For those who are oppressed
a song you can protest
So liberate your minds
And give your soul expression
Open up your hearts
And I'll sing for you this song

Let the people sing their stories and their songs
And the music of their native land
Their lullabies and battle cries and songs of hope and joy
So join us hand in hand
All across this ancient land
Throughout the test of time
It was music that kept their spirits free
Those songs of yours and of mine

It was back in ancient times,
The bard would tell his stories
Of the heroes, of the villain,
and chieftiens in the glen.
Through Elizabethian time
And Cromwellian war and fury
Put our pipers to the sword,
Killed our harpers and our bards.

Let the people sing their stories and their songs
And the music of their native land
Their lullabies and battle cries and songs of open joy
So join us hand in hand
All across this ancient land
Throughout the test of time
It was music that kept their spirits free
Those songs of yours and of mine

Ireland, land of song,
Your music lives forever
In its valleys, in its mountains,
In its hills and in its glens.
Our music did survive
Through famine and oppression.
To the generations gone,
I'll sing for you this song.