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Thread #165891   Message #3985141
Posted By: Jim Carroll
30-Mar-19 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Song heard as a child: Free State Army
Subject: RE: Origins: Song heard as a child-Free State Army
"Maybe it was a jingle"
Plenty of them around - and not just jingoistic
An Irish carpenter I was working with once heard me singing and asked me - "Have you heard this one:

"What's the News, what's the news
DeValera's sold his shoes,
To buy ammunition for his men"

Straight from the Irish Civil War probably
Jim