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Posted By: Felipa
06-Mar-03 - 04:41 PM
Thread Name: St Patrick's Day Songs ?
Subject: Lyr Add: ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE
These songs containing references to St Patrick's Day are quoted in Mick Maloney, Far From the Shamrock Shore. Wilton, Cork: Collins Press, 2002 [by the way. the book, subtitled "The History of Irish-American Immigration through Song", comes complete with a CD. These two songs aren't on the cd, however.] another book of interest would be Edward Harrigan and David BrahamCollected Songs Edited by Jon W. Finson
ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE Ed Harrigan
Then here's sucess to Patrick's Day though it comes but once a year And though I'm not a drinking man, on that day I'd drink my beer. I'll wear the shamrock in my hat, the green my boys 'twill never fade And march along with Dan and Pat in the Patrick's Day parade. We shout hurrah for Erin Go Bragh and all the Yankee nation Stars and stripes and shamrock bright arrayed The Irish shout, the girls turn out to see the celebration We march stiff as starch in the Patrick's Day parade.
IF IT WASN'T FOR THE IRISH AND THE JEWS Jerome and Schwartz
Talk about a combination, hear my words and make a note On St Patrick's Day Rosinsky pins a shamrock on his coat There's a sympathetic feeling between the Blooms and MacAdoos Why Tammany would surely fall Ther'd really be no hall at all If it wasn't for the Irish and the Jews.
(recorded by Billy Murray in 1912 that page of Victor recordings also mentions St Patrick's Day Jig recorded by Victor Military Band, 1911)