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Thread #80905 Message #2858864
Posted By: Genie
08-Mar-10 - 02:06 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Orange & The Green
Subject: RE: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
Correction of lyrics to "The Orange And The Green" in the DT:
The DT has the opening lines as "Once there was an Irishman, a Protestant was he, My mother was a Catholic, from Kelsey town came she ..."
It should be "My father was an Englishman,* proud Protestant was he; My mother was a Catholic ... "
*There are variations in the lyrics to this song, but In the versions I've heard, the father is English. But even if he's Irish, the point of the song is that the Protestant man is the singer/narrator's father, not just any "Irishman" or "Englishman."