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Thread #162623   Message #3873367
Posted By: Teribus
23-Aug-17 - 06:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: G.B. and N.I.?
Subject: RE: BS: G.B. and N.I.?
Well then Jom, a song from someone who most certainly was NOT "a self-described "revisionist historian", a right-wing crime-writer and journalistwith a good, protestant education at UCD, an apologist for Britain's atrocities during the war of independence" - Dominic Behan:

The Patriot Game

(The Song Jom is all about those who joined to fight "Up North" in the Border Campaign 1956 to 1962)

Come all you young rebels and list while I sing
For love of ones land is a terrible thing
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame
And makes us all part of the patriot game

My name is O'Hanlon, I'm just gone sixteen
My home is in Monaghan there I was weaned
I LEARNED ALL MY LIFE CRUEL ENGLAND TO BLAME
And so I'm part of the patriot game.

Tell me Jom who was it that taught Fergal O'Hanlon in the song and Dominic Behan CRUEL ENGLAND TO BLAME

Oh Jom, here's the verse that the Clancy's would not sing:

This Ireland of mine has for long been half-free
Six Counties are under John Bull's Monarchy
But still DeValera is greatly to blame
For shirking his part in the patriot game