A Correction Re: [Sca-cooks] 'shillelagh law'
    Terry Decker 
    t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
       
    Mon Jun  6 10:11:42 PDT 2005
    
    
  
Finnegan's Wake is a 19th Century street ballad.  It is probably of American 
origin for vaudeville.  A lot of groups have done a version, because it's a 
fun song to sing.
Bear
> Yep that is the Orange and the Green, but I think the Rovers did 
> Finnegan's
> Wake also a slightly different version that the Clanceys Brothers ( the
> finest Irish Folk Act I ever saw in person) did from the old folk song. 
> Most
> Irish Folk Songs that are in the top 100 have been done by several groups
> especially back in the 1960s.
>
> Kirk
    
    
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