With regard to Aln Bill's mention of the line "Soon there'll be no Protestants at all" (or, as it usually comes over, "Soon they'll be nae Proddaysints at all"), this is from a parody/version of a song called "On the One Road", which strikes me as a well intentioned call for Irish unity (of a rather militant, and clearly Republican cast). As far as I can see, it's not in the Database; as far as I recall from years ago, it goes like this:

Chorus

"We're on the one road, sharing the one road,
On the road to God knows where;
On the long road, maybe the wrong road,
We're together now - who cares?
Northmen, Southmen, comrades all,
Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Donegal,
On the one road, swinging along,
Singing 'The Soldier's Song'"

"So, we've had our quarrels now and then (!):
Now's the time to make them up again.
Sure, aren't we all Irish anyhow,
And we've got to step together now...

On the one road &c.

Butcher, baker, every mother's son;
Tinker, tailor, shouldering a gun,
Rich man, poor man, every man in line,
Step together now, for Auld Lang Syne...

On the one road   &c.

Night is darkest just before the dawn;
From the dust, Old Ireland is reborn;
Soon will all United Irishmen
See their land 'A Nation Once Again'...

On the one road &c."


The Celtic Football Fans' version goes:

"On the one road, sharing the one road,
On the road to God knows where;
On the long road, maybe the wrong road,
We're together now, who cares:
Northmen, Southmen, comrades all,
Soon there'll be nae Proddaysints at all,
On the one road, swinging along,
Singing a Soldier's Song..."

I've never heard anyone (except, I think, Dominic Behan on a record) sing anything except the chorus, and the last line, "Singing the Soldier's Song" invariably leads into a version of the Chorus of Peadar Kearney's "Amhran na bhFiann", the National Anthem of the Irish Republic:

"Soldiers are we, whose lives are pledged to Ireland;
Some are come from the land beyond the wave;
Sworn to be free; no more our ancient Sireland
Shall shelter the despot or the slave:
Tonight we man the Bearna Baoil, (The "Gap of Danger")
In Erin's cause come woe or weal;
Midst cannons' roar, and rifles' peal,
We will chant a Soldier's Song"

I hear the Celtic Football Fans' version as:

"Soldiers are we(e)             ('Some are big!')
Whose lives are pledged to Ireland;
Some have come                  ('where from?')
From the land beyond the wave   ('God bless them!')
Sworn to be free,
No more our ancient sireland
Shall shelter the death of all the slaves;

(I don't know what happens after this; perhaps someone should get texting on their mobile phone...) Finally, I suppose it's unnecessary to add that "wee" is the Scots, and indeed Irish-English, word for what the English, and Anglified Scots, will call "small" or "little", hence the first obbligato above.

Just to add one more Celtic Football song to this discussion, there's also a parody of Harry Lauder's "Roamin' in the Gloamin'":

"Roamin in the gloamin with a shamrock in yer hand,
Roamin in the gloamin with Saint Patrick's Fenian Band;
And when the music stops,
Fugh King Billy and John Knox,
Oh, it's great tae be a Roman Catholic!"   (or, "Kafflick")

I'll leave it to someone else to get all learned and historical and literary on our arses, and point out how part of the Fenian story (i.e. of the Fianna, Fionn MacCumhaill's warriors, not the nineteenth-century Republican organisation) deals with the way "Priest Patrick" argues with Oisin, returned from his wanderings, that the pagan Fenians are all damned. I suspect those who sing these lines with enthusiam rather than melodiousness see "St Patrick's Fenian Band" as equipped with flutes, pipes, accordeons and big drums (and banners) rather than spears and swords, though, in Glasgow, the latter are not unknown. In Paisley some years ago, in Court, the question was asked of a defendant said to have assaulted someone with a sword, "What kind of sword?", to which he replied with a shrug, "Jist an oardinurry sword" (such as any appropriately dressed Ned would wear).