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rbeach@erols.com irish folk lyrics needed (closed) (16) Lyr Add: THE ORANGE AND THE GREEN 26 Feb 97


Following is the only version of "Orange & The Green" that I am familiar with. Hope it's what you're after. Some of the lyrics are not perfectly clear on the audio tape I have transcribed and they are marked thus ^ ^. If you can supply the missing lyrics to me my above Email, I'd be thankful :)

THE ORANGE AND THE GREEN

Once there was an Irishman. A Protestant was he.
My mother was a Catholic. From Kelsey town came she.
They were married in two churches, lived happily enough
Until the day that I was born then things got rather tough.

CHORUS: Oh, it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen.
My father he was Orange and my mother she was Green.

^At tithe my father 'n' I'd leave, and rushed away by car^(?)
To become a little Orangeman, my father's shining star.
I was christened David Anthony but still in spite of that,
To my father I was Billy while my mother called me Pat. CHORUS

Now, with mother every Sunday to Mass we'd proudly stroll,
And later on, the Orange lads would try to save my soul.
Both sides they tried to claim me but I was bad because
I'd play me flute or play me harp depending where I was. CHORUS

Now, when I'd sing those rebel songs, 'twould fill my mother's joy.
My father would jump up and say, "Now look here, Bill me boy."
My father loved the ^odd step^. He'd be tossin' me at times,
And he proudly played the Orange flute for the heroes of the times. CHORUS

Well, one day my father's kinfolk, they came to visit me.
Too bad my mother's relatives were sittin' down to tea.
I tried to calm things over as they began to fight,
But bein' strictly neutral I punched everyone in sight. CHORUS

Well, my parents they would not agree about my kind of school.
The learnin' was all done at home and that's why I'm a fool.
Now they've both passed on, God bless them, but they left me caught between
That awful color problem of the Orange and the Green. CHORUS




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