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

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 01:03 PM 6/5/2005, you wrote:


>--- "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:
>
> > At 11:41 AM 6/5/2005, you 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".
> >
> > Same song, I'm sure. Fight breaks out at the wake, if I remember aright...
> >
> > 'Lainie
>
>Actually, 'Lainie, it isn't the same song.  But you were right about the 
>phrase being in the song,
>"Finnigan's Wake".  Although that should be "The Clancy Brothers", not Clany.

Uh, what I meant to say was that the song I remembered was the same- 
Finnegan's Wake- as I've only had one cuppa this morning, I failed to make 
that clear.

Thanks for the lyric though- Darby does it with lots of 'audience 
participation', that is, long-time fans yelling out responses like' 
Everybody on the bed!' after 'They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
And laid him out upon the bed'... I was never sure which parts were the 
actual lyrics...

They also have a thing about squirrels...

(They have a website up at http://www.darbyogill.net/ with a variety of 
things, mostly squirrel-free...)

'Lainie
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