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Thread #174662 Message #4235973
Posted By: GUEST,jim bainbridge
20-Feb-26 - 06:00 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Sprig of Shillelagh
Subject: RE: Origins: The Sprig of Shillelagh
different song maybe, but as a longtime admirer of 'Count' John McCormack, his 'Where the River Shannon Flows' song has an unlikely rhyme in
'It's the land of the shillelagh My heart goes back their daily'
I've always pronouncd 'shillelagh' to rhyme with 'daily' but McCormack doesn't attempt to- it's 'lARgh' & jars on me eevery time, now he's Irksh & I'm not, nor do I have a shillelagh.....