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Thread #60757   Message #3895430
Posted By: mayomick
23-Dec-17 - 08:05 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Musha ringum duram da...
Subject: RE: Origins: Musha ringum duram da...
When I moved to Ireland I heard a friend’s five year old singing “Ta mamai is teach , duirt dadio ta mamai’s is teach” ( not sure if that’s the right gaelic, I still cant speak it ! ) . It was to the same tune as a football chant used to be sung in England.”We won the cup ee I addio we won the cup”The addio bit is “daddio” as gailge ,the teach sounded like “cup”. (It could be the case that the Irish kid’s song was taken from the English football chant by the Irish nianra , mind you .I’ve tried to find a link to the song Do you know the one I’m talking about?)