Song of Freedom Ray Collins

From The 1987 LP Song of Freedom (Irish Rebel Music label) In 1985 my good friend Mike Quinn sent me a poem entitled “Winds of Change” written by a young London lad named Jimmy Anderson. Jimmy, who describes himself as a ‘social prisoner politicised in prison’, is incarcerated in an english jail and wrote the poem during one of his many spells in solitary confinement. Jimmy dedicated the poem to Anna and Jacqueline Moore (mother and daughter), two Irish women serving long sentences in Maghaberry Prison (Co.Antrim, Ireland). Basically the message of the song is that a person can be imprisoned, but not an idea; ideas live on in music and music lives on in our hearts and in our minds.