| "Sunday Bloody Sunday" | ||||
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| Single by Paddywagon | ||||
| B-side | "Greener Hills" | |||
| Released | March 1972 | |||
| Recorded | 1972 | |||
| Genre | Protest song, Irish traditional | |||
| Length | 1:59 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mike McGettigan, Maurice McGettigan, Patsy Fayne | |||
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"Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a protest song by Irish band Paddywagon addressing the Bloody Sunday massacre of 30 January 1972.
The lyrics recount the killing of 13 people by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) protest against internment without trial. The song says "They only asked for justice / Which was their human right. To end their shame and torture, To rid them of their plight;" and concludes by saying, "They died with this desire./ That we Irish understand / For peace between the people / And the love of Ireland." [1]
"Sunday Bloody Sunday" was released in March 1972. It was considered a rebel song and thus not played by the Republic of Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ. [2] Despite this, it reached number one in the Irish Singles Chart on 29 April 1972. [3]