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Thread #41161   Message #2080438
Posted By: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
18-Jun-07 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: Which Irish Troubles Songs are Offensive
Subject: RE: Which Irish Troubles Songs are Offensive
The Clancys and Tommy Makem performed a song called, "God Bless England," which was an ironic commentary on the Irish Question. They claimed that beer mugs had been thrown at them by those who failed to get the humor or the point.

"I'll sing you a song of peace and love.
Whack fol the diddle o the di dol day.
Of the land that rules all lands above.
Whack fol the diddle o the di dol day.
May peace and plenty be her share,
Who kept our homes from want and care.
Oh, God bless England is our prayer!
Whack fol the diddle o the di dol day."

Oh, when we were savage, fierce and wild,
Whack.............
She came as a mother to her child.
Whack.............
She gently raised us from the slime,
And kept our hands from hellish crime;
And she sent us to heaven in her own good time!
Whack.........." Etc...

"The Old Orange Flute" would be another I'd suspect might be geographically challenging.