(SHANE) Roigh'! G'luck t'ye! I've been ast to sing one of me best-known songs for yez all. I've changed the words around a wee bit for the occasion. This one's called Fairytale of Drumcree. (APPLAUSE!!!) It was on the Twelfth, yeah Out by Scarva An oul' man said to me "Won't see anawer one" And then he sang a song The Green And Grassy Slopes I smoked a bit of dope I bought in Gilford I bought a Lambeg drum It weighed a half-a-ton I soul' it to some bum When I was on a bender And when I give a toot On my Oul' Orange Flute And wear my new band-suit The girls surrender And the boys on the Garvaghy Road Sing "Go the fuck away" But we'll camp on Drumcree Hill till Judgement Day (The band takes it away for a quare long break, while Shane saunters casually to the drum riser, takes a swig from a bottle of Bucky and lights a feg. As we reach the point where, on the original, Kirsty MacColl came in, Sharon Corr wanders onstage to TUMULTUOUS APPLAUSE!!!) (SHARON) He's got fringed epaulettes He's got strides edged with gold He doesn't smoke snout, he smokes ready-rolled When he first dropped the han' on the 12th of July I hardly need tell yez, I bloody near died (SHANE) Jaysus, you're cat! You're a dorty hoor's get I'll redden your chicks With the back of my han' (SHARON) You bollix, you poghal Away home to Ahoghill I'm away now to fin' me A far better man And the boys on the Garvaghy Road Sing "Go the fuck away" But we'll camp on Drumcree Hill till Judgement Day (SHANE) I could have been someone (SHARON) You're just a hape o' dung! You've got a dorty tongue And you're a bigot (SHANE) Ah, shut yer yappy bake I mean, fer Jaysus' sake A man can hardly spake! Ah, Christ, then! Frig it! And the boys on the Garvaghy Road Sing "Go the fuck away" But we'll camp on Drumcree Hill till Judgement Day
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