Graffiti covered concrete
came crashing to the ground
the whole world celebrated
as the Berlin wall wame down
the war at last is over
anding pain and tormented tears
but here the war's been thriving
for eight hundred dreadful years.

Chorus:
If we had built a wall
from Dundalk to Donegal
a barrier we could see for fifty years
world opinion then might frown
and this wall would tumble down
and we could sell the Germans
souvenirs.

You cross this country East to West
along the great divide
there's nothing there to tell you
you've strayed the other side
invisible barriers that we build
are the ones that never fall
maybe things would be different now
if someone had built a wall.

Chorus:
If we had built a wall
from Dundalk to Donegal
a barrier we could see for fifty years
world opinion then might frown
and this wall would tumble down
and we could sell the Germans
souvenirs.

Friends and families reunited
as music rocked the town
pity we don't have a wall
we could easily knock it down
the scars we have go deeper
and the pain is here to last
we'll never build a future
by looking to the past.

Chorus:
If we had built a wall
from Dundalk to Donegal
a barrier we could see for fifty years
world opinion then might frown
and this wall would tumble down
and we could sell the Germans
souvenirs.

German people East and West
are united once again
but Irish people North and South
will we ever be the same
i don't know what the answer is
or if there's one at all
i wish it was as easy
as just knocking down a wall.

Chorus:
If we had built a wall
from Dundalk to Donegal
a barrier we could see for fifty years
world opinion then might frown
and this wall would tumble down
and we could sell the Germans
souvenirs.