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Lyr Add: I've Oft Been Asked
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Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE OFT BEEN ASKED From: *#1 PEASANT* Date: 24 Jun 10 - 12:39 PM I'VE OFT BEEN ASKED. AIR—"The Battle and the Breeze." I've oft been asked by curious men, Whose spleen I well could scan, To give a reason why and when I am an Orangeman; And as from such folks e'er to shrink, It never was my plan, I give them reasons, fair, I think, Why I'm an Orangeman. When Luther's lightnings crushed the Pope, A shrine he did erect, And holy men of grace and hope Its temple did perfect. And as our order, link by link, With Protestants began, That is a reason, fair, I think, Why I'm an Orangeman. When William's cannon roar'd aloud— Its lightnings winged by fate, Then rose our Constitution proud, In Sixteen-eighty-eight; For it, upon destruction's brink, Our sires led on the van, And that's a reason, fair, I think, Why I'm an Orangeman. To guard that Faith, which, like the sun, Is not of this world's light; To guard that Constitution won At Boyne's immortal fight; To purify from Popery's sink, To check rebellion's clan; All these are reasons, fair, I think, Why I'm an Orangeman. To meet such hearts as here unite, While joyous minutes pass, And hail the hour whose festal light, Now sparkles in our glass; To them to fill, and fill and drink, Tho' life were but a span, That is a reason, fair, I think, Why I'm an Orangeman. —The Orange Melodist, Original Orange Songs, With Occasional Verses and an Appendix, Containing Copious Explanatory Notes, Brother William Archer, Oldbrige lodge 597 (Dublin: Brother J. Kirkwood, Printer, 13, Upper Ormond-quay, 1852). |
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