La Ballade nord-irlandaise [English translation]

I wanted to plant an orange tree

Where the song won't ever see

Where the trees have never born fruit

Only unpinned grenades

To my beloved Derry

On my boat I sailed

I told the men who were fighting

I planted an orange tree

Let's have a drink, let's go fishing

No war can endure

Around beer and friendship

And the music we will sing

Forget your gods forever

Love does not like it under any cross

It is men not priests

Who grow orange trees

I wanted to plant an orange tree

Where the song won't ever see

It bloomed and bore

The sweet fruits of liberty.