<P> Four Green Fields is a 1967 folk song by Irish musician Tommy Makem, described in the New York Times as a "hallowed Irish leave - us - alone - with - our - beauty ballad ." Of Makem's many compositions, it has become the most familiar, and is part of the common repertoire of Irish folk musicians . </P> <P> The song is about Ireland (personified as an "old woman") and its four provinces (represented by "green fields"), one of which remains occupied (" taken") by the British (the "strangers") despite the best efforts of the Irish people (her "sons"), who died trying to defend them . Its middle stanza is a description of the violence and deprivation experienced by the Irish, including the people in Northern Ireland . At the end of the song, one of her fields still shows the promise of new growth: </P> <Dl> <Dd> "But my sons have sons, as brave as were their fathers; </Dd> <Dd> My fourth green field will bloom once again," said she . </Dd> </Dl>

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