The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51485 Message #2986340
Posted By: GUEST,Richard Kelly
14-Sep-10 - 03:00 AM
Thread Name: Robbie McMahon - Spancil Hill
Subject: RE: Robbie McMahon - Spancil Hill
As a Northern Prod (NOT an Orangeman!)and a student in Dublin, it came to me in a drunken moment of lucidity that the tune of SH scans precicely with the words of THe Sash (my father wore).
I have sung these words in many a (republican ) bar when SH was being sung, an no-one has ever noticed!
Try it, it works !
Without trying to be partonising, or over-egging what is just a bit of fun, I could be a unifying hybrid , after all we are all "Ireland's Sons and Daughters" and many Prods were forced to emigrate due to the famine and later economic realities.
I'm sure the words of the Sash are on here somewhere - I only know the first verse! What an embarrassment to my culture!