Music and vocals by Andrew Richardson
Lyrics by David Gardiner

Big Jim Harrison, the Commander of the Belfast Brigade of the IRA, falls into a reflective mood and has a vision of the carnage he is about to set loose in initiating a new uprising against British rule in Northern Ireland.

Circumstances gave me this position, 
Put the steering wheel of history in my hands
The barricades are rising in this city 
And the rival groups are taking up their stands.

In a little while the taunting and the shouting 
Will turn to something nastier by far
Bullets will replace the broken bottles, 
Just watch them as they ratchet up the bar.

Once more the IRA will spring to action, 
Once more the cause of freedom to the fore
Another chance for Irish liberation, 
A united land to last for ever more.

And even if we fail in our objective, 
Our heroes and their exploits will be sung
And future generations will revere us, 
When the bell of freedom finally is rung.

Once more the fertile soil of chaos beckons
For revolution’s seed is well prepared
The young are more than willing to come forward
I pray to god that some of them are spared
I pray to god that some of them are spared



Circumstances

FREE REPOST CHANNELS (and will be forever free) BUT BEFORE SEND ME YOUR TRACKS PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION!!!
I can share your tracks with more than 8500 followers FOR FREE, you only need to follow my repost pages and "Like" my facebook page: www.facebook.com/dailailuca/?fref=ts 
or my soundcloud account if you don't have facebook:
@lucadailai
After that send me your tracks but please, write me in the same message the name of your account on facebook (Yes, i want to see if you really liked my page. If you tell lies i will never repost your tracks).
If you need to be supported follow us and contact us, we will repost your track soon. That are my 4 repost channels
@earthrepost
@jupiterrepost
@venus-repost
@marsrepost

I would like to thank all the singers, songwriters and others who helped develop this project over the course of the last three years, most especially Roger Wicks, Andrew Richardson, Dayna Lynn, Rick Hayter, Leon Rosselson, Becky Simpson, Lily Brooke, Barbara Korner, Hjalmar Nordén, Dieselle May, Jean Lui Toudou, James Fraser, William Playle and Claire Flanagan. Apologies to the people I have left out, of whom I fear there are probably many. 

The musical was created as an 'open source' project based on my 2011 novel 'Engineering Paradise' ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Engineering-Paradise-David-Gardiner/095693790X ) in which I was responsible for the script, including the song lyrics, Other kind people turned my words into songs and recorded the demo versions that you will find here.

The complete script with lyrics and scores, which is essentially finished now but may well undergo revision in response to experience gained from stage performances, is free to download from http://davidgardiner.net/Engineering_Paradise_the_Musical.pdf . Printed copies are also available from http://www.lulu.com/shop/david-gardiner/engineering-paradise-the-musical/paperback/product-23152678.html at £4.64 + postage, which is cost price and includes no royalty element.

'Engineering Paradise the Musical' is a Public Domain intellectual property. There is no Performing Rights fee or payment of any kind  required for performing this work

The action takes place in 1960s Belfast, where Roman Catholic Grammar School boy Danny builds a pirate radio transmitter, falls in love, sleepwalks into the IRA and discovers too late the Faustian nature of the bargain that he has made, and the real motives of those he has trusted. The title comes from a Stafford Beer quote:

'The Holocaust has shown us that the creation of hell on earth is just a matter of engineering. The creation of an earthly paradise is an engineering problem also.'
Stafford Beer (1926 – 2002)

The work has a 'folksy' 1960s atmosphere, and  the cast includes teenagers of both genders as well as parts for adults. It is intended for production by small 'amdram' or student theatre groups.  

If you might be interested in staging the work, or contributing to the project in any other way, please email me at:  sirat@davidgardiner.net