To Hell Or To Connacht

To Hell or to Connacht was Cromwells's war cry To poor Irish tenant farmers his cruel words did apply Cromwell was a war criminal the facts never lie To Hell or to Connacht were his words or die. When Cromwell handed over the command of the Royalist Troops to Henry Ireton the results were the same In human history their treatment of poor Irish people is a human shame In their conquests of Ireland thousands of people died Any form of human rights of them was denied. Poor Irish tenant farmers were put on the road To Connacht or to die of no fixed abode Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton were far worse than cruel They were despotic leaders who abused their rule. Anyone who knows of history surely do know Of the atrocities of the Crown forces in Ireland three and a half centuries ago Cromwell and Ireton were horrible men They must have been born in the Devil's den. Some look on past history as over and gone But in Ireland to Hell or to Connacht those words do live on And thousands on walking to Connacht died of hunger and cold The poor and forgotten their life stories untold.