Glen performs at a free anti-homelessness concert outside Leinster House. #MyNameIs #HomelessIsNotNormal
Setlist (incomplete): War is Over (John Lennon), Shelter, This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie), Kids Song – with The Pale (Mic Christopher)
Altered lyrics to War is Over:
‘I’d like to ask Father Peter McVerry and John Lennon for their forgiveness for this song’
And so this is Christmas
and what have you done
3,800 homeless
and you talk like there’s none
And so this is Christmas
for the haves and have-nots
for the living and dead ones
you won’t be forgot
So McVerry very Christmas
and a Happy New Year
let’s hope it’s a good one
get your asses in gear
The ICHH
are on the outreach
we need more beds in the system
not more deaths on our streets
So McVerry very Christmas
to Tiny Tim and The Scrooge
to the kids in the hotels
and the slum landlords too
So McVerry very Christmas
and a happy new year
let’s hope it’s a better one
get your asses in gear
Eoghan Murphy, Simon Coveney, Leo Varadkar
what’s the story
Eoghan Murphy, Leo Varadkar
what’s the story
A doorway’s no place
to be sleeping
a hotel’s no place
to raise your children
La da da da
La da da da
BLAH BLAH BLAH
A very merry Christmas
for the have and have-nots
for the living and dead ones
you won’t be forgot
a McVerry merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
let’s hope it’s a good one
get your asses in gear
Reviews: The Journal, Dublin Live
Video:
War is Over at the Independent
Song with Breandán Begley (by Thomas Guinness)