An award-winning singer who has sold almost 30 million records worldwide has incorporated lyrics from a famous Irish rebel song on to a track on her new album.

On ‘Let’s Do the Things We Normally Do’, Dido sings: “Armoured cars and tanks and guns, came to take away our sons, but every man must stand behind the men behind the wire.”

Dido – who has scored number one hits in Europe and the United States – lifted the lyric from the famous The Men Behind the Wire song.

The ‘Let’s Do the Things We Normally Do’ track is on her new album, Safe Trip Home, which was released last month.

The Men Behind the Wire was originally written by Paddy McGuigan of the Barleycorn folk group.

It is an anti-internment song that deals with homes being raided and nationalists being jailed without trial. 

Proceeds from the original 1971 record, which went to number one in the Irish charts but was banned on RTÉ and BBC, went into the kitty to help launch the Andersonstown News.

Dido spent part of her early childhood growing up in Co Clare.