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Thread #5552   Message #31808
Posted By: Philippa
01-Jul-98 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: Green Fields of France
Subject: Green Fields of France
Sorry, my mind's doing a blank on the Scots-Aussie author, but someone was looking for parodies of his songs. last month's forum?

Anyway I didn't see any respondent coming up with the one that includes these verses:

If you go for a drink on a Saturday night
A song and a pint, everything's going right
Till some drunk in his cups stumbles inside and
asks for that song they call Willie McBride
....
Oh Willy McBride, why did you have to die?
What trouble you'd saved us if you'd stayed alive
And got a wee job or even signed on the bru'
We wouldn't have to hear all those songs about you

[not that original deserved to be parodied, but when you hear too many drunks singing it and imitating Finbar Furey's accent...)