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Wikipedia article"'If They Come in the Morning'"Jack Warshaw, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0051G5F9O?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 "If They Come in the Morning"]. From the album 'Long Time Gone', April 18, 2011. is the original title of the song better known as "No Time For Love".[http://www.irish-folk-songs.com/no-time-for-love-lyrics-and-chords.html "No Time For Love Lyrics And Chords"], Irish Songs With Guitar Chords. It was recorded by Moving Hearts for their debut album in 1981. It also has been recorded in 1986 by Christy Moore on his 'The Spirit of Freedom' album. It was written by American singer/songwriter Jack Warshaw in 1976. The title was borrowed from the book of the same title by Angela Davis, rephrasing the closing line of James Baldwin's letter to her of November 19, 1970: "...if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night". From its first line the song attacks unjust law in the forms of "apartheid, internment, conscription, partition and silence..." with references to places prominent in the news at the time: Boston, Chicago, Saigon, Santiago (Chile), Cape Town and Belfast. Warshaw had visited Belfast on a research project and knew fellow Belfast/Derry songwriters The People of No Property whose recording was to be the source of Moore's version. To Moore and Irish opposition to partition and, as they see it, British occupation of Northern Ireland, it was a freedom anthem. Moore varied the song's first line, slipping in "we call it" after "They call it the law..." so that its meaning is unmistakable. He also entered Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands into the fourth stanza after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in place of "the Panthers," giving the song greater traction through Sands' martyrdom. The title can also be referenced back to the provocative poem "First they came..." by Pastor Martin Niemller (18921984): The Christy Moore version was included in two BBC documentaries, 'Folk Hibernia'[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074t9b 'Folk Hibernia'], BBC. and 'Folk Britannia'[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074s69 'Folk Britannia], BBC. as well as concert videos of Moore and Moving Hearts. Writing in 'The Irish Times', Frank McNally observed: ...Moving Hearts were the political wing (in some versions, the musical wing) of the Wolfe Tones. Their songs spanned a range of mostly respectable lefty causes, from Jim Page's Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette, to Jackson Browne's environmentalist elegy Before the Deluge. It wasn't all politics, either. One of the stand-out performances at the Stadium was a punk rock/heavy metal version of Nancy Spain. But the real showstopper - the song that earned the standing ovation - was No Time for Love (if they come in the morning). The original lyrics have been updated by its author Jack Warshaw in his 2018 album "Misfits Migrants and Murders" ReferencesCategory:1976 songs | |
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