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Thread #16692   Message #157180
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Jan-00 - 09:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Take It Down From The Mast
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Take It Down From The Mast
And the tune of course is Red River Valley, (though when I first heard the Red River Valley, I'd have been more likely to say it was to the tune of "Take it down from the mast"), and that's in the DT with a tune at the end of a blue clicky thing.

But I hope that when you sing it you make it clear to people that you're singing it as a historic song, about a stage in the struggle in Ireland which, please God, is done with.

That goes for the last verse especially - otherwise "the men who intend to do killing" is going to be taken as meaning you're siding with the Omagh Bombers, and rejecting the expressed wish of the people of Ireland. (Incidentally, that isn't at all the same thing as just disagreeing with that expressed wish, which is a quite arguable position.)

Did you see the New Year pictures from Derry? Lambeg drums and bodhrans playing together, and making a hell of a good sound.