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Thread #118077   Message #2551615
Posted By: Seamus Kennedy
28-Jan-09 - 11:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mick Stick - Boyne Water
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Mick Stick - Boyne Water
Another childhood one from my native Falls Rd. area of Belfast was:

King Billy was a bendy soldier,
He fought for the bendy crooks,
He fought for the sake of Linfield*
To buy a pair of boots.

When baps and scones* were flyin',
He got hit by a hard barm-brack,*
And he dropped dead like a tatey bread*
All warapped in the Union Jack.

*Linfield - local Unionist soccer team;
*baps and scones - bread rolls;
*tatey bread - potato pancake


Seamus

I'm surprised Alison or Jimmy C haven't weighed in with some more.