Rocky Road to Dublin from their new album "Ramblin' with the Rats - Stolen Songs of Struggle" released in June 2014.

Rocky Road to Dublin

Paddy's Taksim square from their new album "Ramblin' with the Rats - Stolen Songs of Struggle" and definitely in solidarity with Gezi, Brazil and the struggles all over the world!

Paddy's Taksim Square

Paddy came from Dublin, I met him on the train
He said I have to take a drink as quickly as I can
I asked him for the reason and what he felt was wrong
"I heard the best of warcries yet not in my mothertongue"

Her yer Taksim, her yer Direniş
Paddy has no difficulties ever understanding this
No matter if it's Istanbul, Brazil or day or night
Everywhere is Taksim-Square and everywhere we fight

What is this war you're talkin' of? For Europe hails the peace
"Oh don't you see the force" says he "the army and police
They're goin' in for banks and wealth in armor and in gears
The emblems of the century are truly gas and tears"

Her yer Taksim, her yer Direniş
Paddy has no difficulties ever understanding this
No matter if it's Istanbul, Brazil or day or night
Everywhere is Taksim-Square and everywhere we fight

In Irleand we fight the fees, in Germany the banks
In Britain Unions organize, they strike in Spain and France
Greece is bleeding right to death and Turkey drowns in grief
That's the peace you're seein', mate, the peace of thug and thief

Her yer Taksim, her yer Direniş
Paddy has no difficulties ever understanding this
No matter if it's Istanbul, Brazil or day or night
Everywhere is Taksim-Square and everywhere we fight

In Dublin we had pints so black, in Frankfurt we had shots
Great supply in London, in Madrid and Paris lots
Athens welcomed us with Ooze, whole Istanbul is free
But when we leave the train to fight: We're sober as a tree!

Her yer Taksim, her yer Direniş
Paddy has no difficulties ever understanding this
No matter if it's Istanbul, Brazil or day or night
Everywhere is Taksim-Square and everywhere we fight

Her yer Taksim, her yer Direniş
Paddy has no difficulties ever understanding this
No matter if it's Istanbul, Brazil or day or night
Everywhere is Taksim-Square and everywhere we fight

Paddy's Taksim Square

"Sog nischt kejnmol" from their new album "Ramblin' with the Rats - Stolen Songs of Struggle". This is an interpretation of a Yiddish partisan song written 1943 in the Vilnius Ghetto by Hirsch Glik who joined the "Fareinikte Partisaner Organisatzije" and participated 1942 in an uprising in the Ghetto. He was caught by the German troops and deported to an Estonian concentration camp from which he escaped. Right after this he joined the fight against the German troops and died in the age of 22. We added one English version of the first verse. RIP Hirsch Glik and all fighters who died in prisons, camps and on the battlefields against Fascism during the dark years when Fascists in Europe slaughtered the workers' movement, Jews and all others.

Lyrics:

"Don't you tell me that you'll take the final way/
Even when blue sky's overshadowed by the gray/
Sure the hour that we're dreaming for will come/
We'll arrive with steps pounding like a drum.

Sure the hour that we're dreaming for will come/
We'll arrive with steps pounding like a drum.

zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg,
khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.
kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho,
s'vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!

fun grinem palmenland biz vaysn land fun shney,
mir kumen on mit undzer payn, mit undzer vey,
un vu gefaln iz a shprits fun undzer blut,
shprotsn vet dort undzer gvure, undzer mut!

s'vet di morgnzun bagildn undz dem haynt,
un der nekht vet farshvindn mit dem faynt,
nor oyb farzamen vet di zun in der kayor --
vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor.

dos lid geshribn iz mit blut, un nit mit blay,
s'iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl oyf der fray,
dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent
dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent.

to zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg,
khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg.
kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho --
es vet a poyk ton undzer trot: mir zaynen do!

Don't you tell me that you'll take the final way/
Even when blue sky's overshadowed by the gray/
Sure the hour that we're dreaming for will come/
We'll arrive with steps pounding like a drum.

Sure the hour that we're dreaming for will come/
We'll arrive with steps pounding like a drum."

Sog nischt kejnmol

Leaving of Liverpool - Another song from from the new album of "The Rathmines" - "Ramblin' with the Rats - Stolen Songs of Struggle".

Leaving of Liverpool

"How to Steal Horses" from their new album "Ramblin' with the Rats - Stolen Songs of Struggle" which has been featured on many radio shows across the globe.

How to Steal Horses

See the horses on that ranch?
Literally begging to be stolen.
I know it seems strange but it's seriously warning me
That this can only be pulled off by two collaborators
One let it loose, the other ride it home

I know this sounds lika a plan
maybe leading in trouble but we're quite a couple
And if you're in I'll see to get you out

The animal as an acquired means of production
Shouldn't belong anymore to a dude who sells rides
But we can pull it off him
as we're truly two cool c'llaborators
You ride it home and I could consume the proof

I know this sounds like a plan maybe leading in trouble
But we're quite a couple
And if you're in I'll see to get you out

That can only be pulled off by two collaborators
One to let it loose, the other consuming the proof

I know this sounds like it was planned
but now I'm into trouble
And we're just no couple
But if you're in, then darling: I'm still in

And if you're in I'll see to get you out

How to Steal Horses

There's so very much to say right here. We kind of “stole” our material for the most from DUBLINERS, THE POGUES, CLANCY BROTHERS – from your rich and colourful history and culture. And even when we produce our own stuff, it's assembled with bits and parts of the tradition of Folk, Country, Rock, Blues and Punk that already exists. What we do is mostly songs, telling stories of tragedies, wishes, longings, achievements, fights and fates. And struggle? We struggle with the instruments, stages, lights, electricity, audiences, landlords, bartenders, pints, cigarettes, ashtrays, cabs, each other... the audiences struggles with us and among themselves... and the material speaks of struggles way across centuries, ringing on to this very day, and we try to connect them with present struggles. For still the oppressed are fighting their state of existence. You see them when you open the news... We'd like to be one of their voices. 

TheRathmines

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