Ferret, I do not want to heat up the discussion in this thread, so just look next week for a thread "Fenian Record Player" (not from that songbook). Mudguard might be quicker.

Dai, if I have hurt your feelings by something I posted beside the lyrics I apologise. I am not sorry, however, for having spent 20p nearly 25 years ago as a young man to buy on the streets of Dublin a small booklet containing several songs I wanted the lyrics of badly like "A nation once again", "The west's asleep", and "A soldier's song". The small print on page two (edited by Sinn Féin) I neither had read before the purchase nor would it have meant anything to me at that time. The term "IRA songbook" is my invention in order to mock about that distinction (IRA/SF). Your word "doubtless" is quite strong in what it implies.

Wolfgang