For St. Patrick's Day... by Channain

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For St. Patrick's Day...

POSTED BY: CHANNAIN
UPDATED: Thursday, March 17, 2005 18:46
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Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:57 AM

i DO aim to misbehave

One of my favorite Irish tunes, and the reason why I would wear orange before green on St. Patrick's day.

The Orange and The Green
words and music A. Murphy

CHORUS
Oh, it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen.
My father, he was Orange and me mother, she was green.

My father was an Ulster man, proud Protestant was he.
My mother was a Catholic girl, from county Cork was she.
They were married in two churches, lived happily enough,
Until the day that I was born and things got rather tough.
CHORUS

Baptized by Father Riley, I was rushed away by car,
To be made a little Orangeman, my father's shining star.
I was christened "David Anthony," but still, inspite of that,
To me father, I was William, while my mother called me Pat.
CHORUS

With Mother every Sunday, to Mass I'd proudly stroll.
Then after that, the Orange lodge would try to save my soul.
For both sides tried to claim me, but i was smart because
I'd play the flute or play the harp, depending where I was.
CHORUS

Now when I'd sing those rebel songs, much to me mother's joy,
Me father would jump up and say, "Look here would you me boy.
That's quite enough of that lot", he'd then toss me a coin
And he'd have me sing the Orange Flute or the Heros of The Boyne
CHORUS

One day me Ma's relations came round to visit me.
Just as my father's kinfolk were all sitting down to tea.
We tried to smooth things over, but they all began to fight.
And me, being strictly neutral, I bashed everyone in sight.
CHORUS

My parents never could agree about my type of school.
My learning was all done at home, that's why I'm such a fool.
They've both passed on, God rest 'em, but left me caught between
That awful color problem of the Orange and the Green.
CHORUS

KEY C

verse:
C Dm
F G
C Dm
F G

chorus:
Dm C
F C F-G7-C

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:24 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Never heard that song before. I like it. Where I grew up, if I had to dared to wear orange or even red on St. Patrick's Day I'd have been fighting for weeks.

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 1:52 PM

STATIC

Here's another one!

Come Out Ye Black and Tans

I was born on a Dublin street where the Royal drums do beat
AAnd the loving English feet they tramped all over us,
And each and every night when me father'd come home tight
He'd invite the neighbors outside with this chorus:

cho: Oh, come out you black and tans,
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals fown in Flanders
Tell them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away,
From the green and lovely lanes in Killashandra.

Come let me hear you tell
How you slammed the great Pernell,
When you fought them well and truly persecuted,
Where are the smears and jeers
That you bravely let us hear
When our heroes of sixteen were executed.

Come tell us how you slew
Those brave Arabs two by two
Like the Zulus they had spears and bows and arrows,
How you bravely slew each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
And you frightened them poor natives to their marrow.

Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien--
How you bravely called them swine!
Robert Emmett who you hung and drew and quartered!
High upon that scaffold high,
How you murdered Henry Joy!
And our Croppy Boys from Wexford you did slaughter!

The day is coming fast
And the time is here at last,
When each yeoman will be cast aside before us,
And if there be a need
Sure my kids wil sing, "Godspeed!"
With a verse or two of Steven Beehan's chorus.

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 2:21 PM

EMBERS

St. Patrick's Day humor

American goes to a Dublin pub and is immediately asked:
"are you a Catholic or a Protestant?"
he responds:
"actually I am Jewish"

"yes, but, are you a Catholic Jew or a Protestant Jew?"

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 2:40 PM

DARKJESTER

In a similar vein..

An American is walking at night in Belfast. Suddenly he feels a gun in his back.
"Catholic or Protestant?" asks a voice from the darkness.
Thinking quickly, the American replies "Actually, I'm Jewish."
The voice behind the American replies "Praise Allah, I must be the luckiest Arab in Belfast!"

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 5:41 PM

NEEDLESEYE

An oldie but still gorram funny...

O'Neil was walking home from the pub one night when lo and behold he
sees one of the Little Folk. He sneaks up and catches him in is stare
and demands three wishes for the little mans freedom. "Granted" says the
man in green, "but whatever I do for you, O'Reily will get twofold!" Now
O'Reily is no friend of O'Neil, in fact they hate each other, but O'Neil
agrees.
"For my first wish I'd like a mansion full of expensive antiques and
beautiful women."
"Granted, and of course O'Reily gets two!"
"For my second wish I'd like a beautiful, sexy, redheaded nymphomaniac."
"Granted, and of course O'Reily gets two women."
Now by this stage O'Neil is pissed off, the hated O'Reily getting two
mansions and two nymphomaniacs. Suddenly inspiration hits him.
"For my third wish, I want you to remove one of my testicles!"

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 6:46 PM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

It's Guiness, of course. I tasted it once, but am not particularly fond of beer to begin with. Strong stuff!

Quote:
VETERAN
Never heard that song before. I like it. Where I grew up, if I had to dared to wear orange or even red on St. Patrick's Day I'd have been fighting for weeks.

I wore red today. Good thing I work at a church. Not much fighting going on there.

Fans come and fans go...but zealots are with you until the bitter black end.
I draw...therefore I am. http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922
Minnesota Meetup - join us! http://firefly.meetup.com/45/

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