A Correction Re: [Sca-cooks] 'shillelagh law'

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Daniel  Phelps <phelpsd at gate.net> wrote:

> I wrote:
> 
> > The Clany Brothers and Tommy M in the song "Finnigan's Wake"?  I think the
> > line is "...and shillelagh law was all the rage"
> >
> I've thought again and I think it was The Irish Rovers in the song "The
> Orange and the Green".
> 
> Daniel

Sorry.  No shillelagh in "Orange and the Green"

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Lyrics by: A. Murphy 
Recorded by: Donal O'Shaughnessy and The Irish Rovers 


For those of you who don't know why Irish Protestants are called Orangemen, it has to do with
King William III [The William of William and Mary], who was also the Prince of Orange.  When
the Irish rebeled, as they usually did against the British Monarchy, William sent troups he
trusted: his Dutch troops from his Principality of Orange.  Thus Orangemen.  They were very
affective and very harsh in quelling the uprising.  So much so that all Protestants and all
Dutchmen became the hated Orangemen to the Irish Catholics.

Huette

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