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Thread #34326   Message #462594
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
15-May-01 - 05:15 AM
Thread Name: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
By the way, Rambam, just remember we're an international community here, and it would help if you posted in Esperanto.

Not strictly IRA, but does anyone recognise these lines, and is the tune that goes with them the Ash Grove? (Know the tune, just not sure about its name.)

I'm teaching them Irish and painting pillar boxes
All over in green, sure what more can I do?
But they tell me they want just and Irish Republic
Without any trimmings of red, white and blue.

I'd have been with Collins on the free-state side of the barney, but it's a great song. Wish I could remember the rest of it, and who sang it.