Let The People Sing

I could be being naive here.

I've listened to this song a few times on you tube as I didn't know it and I've read the lyrics a few times too. A lot of people that aren't Celtic fans seem to think that it's a song that we should not be allowed to sing. I can't see any problems with the lyrics so why is it offensive to others?

 

simply because they are huns and all that goes with it.

let the people sing there stories and there songs:huddle:

 

The music of their native land
Their lullabies and battlecries
their songs of hope and joy
so join us hand in hand:icon_mrgreen:

theres as much wrong with let the people sing as there is with fields of athenrye

HAIL HAIL

 

let

nothing wrong with it.but then, there's nothing wrong with sean south either, yet celtic fans disageee.what's wrong with sean south?

 

i don't see how the lyrics can be viewed as offensive.

 

It's an irish folk song for * sake. Next thing you know they'll be banning the tricolor.

 

I think a majority of the 'questionable' songs should be allowed to sing.

Stuff I think should be kept out of CP is 'ooh ah up the Ra', Provos Lullaby, The SAM Song, Say Hello to the Provos, stuff like that. BOTOB, LTPS, Sean South etc are fine. So is shouting Sinn Féin or * the Queen and the UDA.

 

Is there any truth in the rumours about a cleaned up version of Celtic Symphony being allowed?

 

i once worked with an older guy who was a celtic fan and he told me to stop playing LTPS cos it was a rebel song and there was mixed company about, i think it was just ignorance on his part, he just assumed that cos its irish and we sing it then it must be a rebel song.

 

Because certain people seem to think that every song that come out of ireland is a rebel song ,wonder who.

 

Nothing wrong with it but anything associated with Ireland the huns will have a moan about.

 

Nothing offensive about it at all.

 

and on that note....

Let the poeple sing, their stories and their songs,
The music of their native land

 

Even if it was a rebel song, so what? They aren't sectarian. The Tartan Army sing songs about Jakobite rebellions and it's grand, but when we sing about Irish rebellion it's sectarian?

No, the real problem with bigotry is the anti-Irish racism in Scottish society.

 

i think it might have something to do with the line,

"Our music did survive
Through famine and oppression"

i thinks its just the huns sayin if we cant sing about the famine neather can u!

 

Fans of other clubs(particularly the filth, Hearts and Motherwell) just have a general abhorrence of anything we do or sing that is connected to Ireland. There are no offensive lyrics in this song it is a simple matter of anti-Irish bigotry. These people will NEVER succeed in divorcing the Celtic support from feeling proud of the Irish roots our club has. I don't know about anyone else but the more anti-Irish bigotry we get thrown at us THE MORE DETERMINED it makes me to sing these songs and to protect the heritage and identity of the club I love. HAIL HAIL

 

agreed

 

THEY still sing about the famine

"Let The People Sing"

 

is it just me or when they sing "the famines over why don't you go home" its the bit about telling an entire race of people to leave the country thats offensive and racist and not the fact that they're singing about the famine. sick of the papers and some celtic fans going on about how many people died in the famine etc, if you look at what they're actually singing it doesn't make light of that at all. what it does do is tell irish people they are not welcome in scotland. the sooner the focus shifts to this rather than the entirely debatable whether or not they're mocking the famine, which in my view they're not, the sooner the song will be seen for the racist and xenophobic * it is.

and nothing at all wrong with let the people sing though i do find it ironic that celtic play a song with the lyric "let the people sing... there lullabies and battlecries" over the P.A. then throw you out if you do sing the battlecries the song refers to