When I was in Vietnam my outfit would occasionally stand down, which was cause for celebration. We didn't have Guiness or Jameson so we made do with warm Falstaff and rum and Fresca and imagination. We'd sing humerous(sp?) songs about Vietnam, like Country Joe's "Fixin' to Die Rag" and "Blood on the Shrouds" and a little ditty called "We're a Bunch o' Bastards". They were all tension breakers, although out of context they're a bit grim and there's nothing much funny about the Vietnam war. Still, they served an important purpose and I'd hate to see them banished. I expect it's the same for IRA tunes, and I'd bet there are some favored by the Royal Irish Regiment, too. I sure understand where Bulldog is coming from, I don't think I'd care much for pro Viet Cong tunes, although I've never heard one. But let's keep some perspective on it. My favorite funny IRA tune is the one mentioned above called "Fido Hid the Hand Grenade for Me" to the tune of "A Nation Once Again" in which the peelers bust a house occupied by an IRA family who get rid of a grenade by tossing it to Fido who promply swallows it. It goes off and when the smpke clears "There was Fido. And there was Fido and there was Fido over there". The chorus goes "Alsation once again, Alsatian once again, And Fido up in heaven be Alsatian once again."