seeking funny I.R.A. Songs

Subject: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,Rambam99
Date: 14 May 01 - 02:34 PM

I am trying to compile a list of all the TRULY funny IRA/ Anti-English Songs (preferably WITH lyrics!) This is in response to a friend of mine who asked after I took him to ST. Pats, and I couldn't think of any besides 'Johnson's Motor Car' and 'If I had a face like yours I'd join the British Army'. I've heard all the sad and angry ones like 'Patriot Game', but I'd like to know more of the funny ones they chant in Irish Bars. Anybody?

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 01 - 02:36 PM

"ten sticks of gelegnite" is pretty "funny".

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: NH Dave
Date: 14 May 01 - 02:41 PM

The Old Orange Flute.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Amergin
Date: 14 May 01 - 02:42 PM

well, there is God Bless England

never thought of Johnson's Motor Car to be funny....

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Robby
Date: 14 May 01 - 02:54 PM

You can always try Tommy Makem's "Remember Brave Lord Nelson, Boys".
"Moses, Ri-toor-a-li-ay" may not be an IRA song, but it is anti-British and funny, as well.
Good choice Amergin.
Robby

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,smitty
Date: 14 May 01 - 03:25 PM

howz about "the queen's petticoats"

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: pattyClink
Date: 14 May 01 - 03:33 PM

(Come Out Ye)Black and Tans

ya know, few war tunes are flat-out Funny. Ya want Upbeat and Rakish, you might get more of a selection.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: vectis
Date: 14 May 01 - 03:43 PM

Try to get hold of an old (1960's or early 70's) Wolftones recording of The Teddys Head or Give back our Teddy's Head. Treats a serious subject with dry humour.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Jock Morris
Date: 14 May 01 - 03:48 PM

Funny? IRA? Now there's a juxtaposition of terms if ever I saw one.

Nobody who's seen the aftermath of a family torn apart by their wife and mother being killed as a innocent victim of an IRA bomb could ever see anything funny in the IRA.

Scott

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,TJC
Date: 14 May 01 - 03:50 PM

Eire Og singing the SAM song, (surface to air missile) is a good rendition of the Brits worrying about the IRA's latest weapon!!!

"The Brits are looking worried"

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,rambam99
Date: 14 May 01 - 04:01 PM

i can live without the social commentary, this isnt the place for a lengthy discussion of the efficacy of alternative warfare. Folk music is oftyen visciously unfair, and that's a huge part of humor. ALL comedy is based on pain or loss of dignity. "anyone who says otherwise is selling something!"

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Jock Morris
Date: 14 May 01 - 04:33 PM

You are one sick puppy not wanting to consider that the 'funny song' you want to sing has the nasty truth behind it of wives, mothers, husbands, fathers and children slaughtered by IRA terrorists. I know many people from Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, and they're no more oppressed by the British government than anyone else in the UK. The IRA's fight is a poor excuse for a few mindless thugs to cause carnage.

Now the oppression DID exist, but it has long since been consigned to the history books.

Scott

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Lanfranc
Date: 14 May 01 - 04:39 PM

A "funny" IRA song - How about Harvey Andrews' "The Soldier"?

Oxymorons of the world unite - I'm with you, Scott.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 May 01 - 04:43 PM

Scott Jock Morris, would you mind starting a thread to discuss this?? First off, I could debate you on your position all damn day, but the person who started the thread asked that it stick to the premise he started it on. Please respect his request, and start another thread if you feel the need to debate this. I will join you there, and we can have a go at each other if you would like, on this issue.

Rambam, I will look through some of my stuff to see if I can help. Did you do a supersearch on this?

Mick

Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD ALARM CLOCK
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:02 PM

Lighten up, Jock. I've slagged the Provos a time or two myself in these threads, if you want to look back through my posts, but never forget it was British injustice that spawned the IRA. And if the song below doesn't raise a chuckle, there's something wrong with you. Don't know who wrote it - apologies to him or her, expecially if it's copyright. The tune is The garden where the praties grow.

THE OLD ALARM CLOCK
as sung by Dominic Behan around 1956, and later by the Dubliners.

When first I came to London in the year of 'thirty-nine
The city looked so wonderful and the girls were so divine
But the coppers got suspicious and they soon gave me the knock
I was charged with being the owner of an old alarm clock

Oh next morning down by Marlborough Street I caused no little stir
The IRA were busy and the telephones did burr(?)
Said the judge, I'm going to charge you with the possession of this machine
And I'm also going to charge you with the wearing of the green

Now says I to him, Your Honour, if you'll give me half a chance
I'll show you how my small machine can make the peelers dance
It ticks away politely till you get an awful shock
And it ticks away the geli-gu-nite in my old alarm clock

Said the judge, Now listen here, my man, and I'll tell you of my plan
For you and all your countrymen I do not give a damn
The only time you'll take is mine - ten years in Dartmoor dock
And you can count it by the ticking of your old alarm clock

Now this lonely Dartmoor city would put many in the jigs
The cell it isn't pretty and it isn't very big
Sure I'd long ago have left the place if I had only got
My couple of sticks of geli-gu-nite and an old alarm clock.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:14 PM

Jock, I posted before I'd seen your follow-up. The song I've posted refers to a period when the oppression was there in bundles, so feel free to have a little smile - I know countless Prods & Fenians who wouldn't mind at all.

But in future perhaps we should all wait until history, or some international court of justice has passed impartial judgment on any specific conflict, before we decide whether the songs that came out of that conflict were funny or not. Would that make you feel better, Jock?

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Jock Morris
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:18 PM

Gosh, maybe I am too sensitive; anybody got any funny KKK/anti-black songs? or how about a few humerous ditties about gassing Jews? Surely somebody out there has a truly hilarious song about the Oklahoma bomb?

What's wrong? Nobody laughing now?

Scott

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Jock Morris
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:26 PM

Fionn,

If someone came onto the Mudcat and started asking for anti-black songs or anti-gay songs or anti-semitic songs I doubt many folk would have a good word to say for them. Kindly explain why I should feel any different towards someone asking for anti-English songs.

Time we all stopped fighting and learned to live in peace.

Scott

Subject: Lyr Add: SAM SONG
From: GUEST,TJC
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:33 PM

SAM Song

Well I have been a Provo now for 15 years or more
with armalites and mortorbombs I thought I knew the score
but now we have a weapon, we've never used before
the Brits are looking worried - and their going to worry more!

(Chorus)
Tiocfaidh Ar La, sing Up the Ra
SAM Missiles, in the sky

I started off with petrol bomb and throwing bricks and stones
with a 100 more lads like me I never was along
but soon and learned that bricks and stones won't drive the Brits away
it wasn't very long before, I joined the IRA

(Chorus)

Then there came Internment in the year of '71
the Brits thought we were beaten that we were on the run
on that early August morning they kicked'in our back door
but for every man they took away, they missed a hundred more

(Chorus)

I spent eight years in the cages, I had time to think and plan
for though they locked away a boy, I walked out a man
and there's only one thing that I learned will in their cell I lay
the Brits will never leave us, until their blown away!

(Chorus)

All through the days of Hunger strike I watched my comrades die
while in the streets of Belfast you could hear the women cry
I can't forget the massacre that Friday at Loughgall
I salute my fallen comrades, as I watch the choppers fall

(Chorus)

HTML line breaks added --JoeClone, 30-Sep-01.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:33 PM

Because, Jock, I don't know of any controversy with regard to anti-semitism, racism as practiced by the KKK, or on the heinous nature of Tim McVeigh's act. There are plenty of differences of opinion on the British actions in the North of Ireland, and the efforts to rid/keep them there by the parties. I notice with interest that people like you always spit out the acronym "IRA" as if they were the scourge of the earth, but you never reference the terrorists/guerilla fighters from the other side.

But all that aside, won't you please honor the request of the starter of this thread and take your disagreement to another thread. If you choose not to, that is fine, but that makes every thread you start subject to hijack by others.

Mick

Subject: Lyr Add: LORD NELSON (Tommy Makem)
From: GUEST,TJC
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:38 PM

LORD NELSON
(Tommy Makem)

Lord Nelson stood in pompous state, upon his pillar high,
And down along O'Connell Street he cast a wicked eye.
He thought how this barbaric race had fought the British Crown,
Yet they were content to let him stay right there in Dublin town!

CHORUS: So remember Brave Lord Nelson, boys. He has never known defeat,
And for his reward they stuck him up in the middle of O'Connell Street!

For many years, Lord Nelson stood, and no one seemed to care.
He would squint at Dan O'Connell who was standin' right down there.
He thought, "The Irish love me or they wouldn't let me stay,
All except that band of blighters that they call the IRA!"

And then in nineteen sixty-six, on March the seventh day,
A bloody great explosion made Lord Nelson rock and sway!
He crashed, and Dan O'Connell cried, in woeful misery.
Now twice as many pigeons will come and shit on me!

CHORUS (final) So remember brave Lord Nelson, boys. He has never known defeat!
And for his reward they blew him up in the middle of O'Connell Street!

Copyright 1967, 1969 Tiparm Music
@Irish @rebel
filename[ LORDNLSN
AJS

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 May 01 - 05:38 PM

How about Sister Josephine? The IRA guy hiding in a convent... teaching the young nuns poker and so on? I can probably post the lyrics if you want, I'm pretty sure I know the whole song.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: InOBU
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:01 PM

Hi Scott: I am not very good with computer, however, others who are better at this than I, can direct you to earlier posts on the subject of wether or not the IRA was, before the present moment, a terrorist organisation. In fact, I had a protracted discussion with RIchard Bridge, an Englsih lawyer, of cases in US courts, a slightly less than nuetral environment, (due to NATO's involvement in the cold war politic behind the northern political situation). In these cases, most promenantly that of IRA Vol. Joe Doherty, US courts ruled that the IRA was not a terrorist organisation. On the other hand, the SAS has carried out extra judicial killings and made war on civilian populations. I have in the past, and continue to call for a process of truth and reconcilliation so that we on opposit sides of the politics and fighting in this terrible time can shake hands and get on with a future of peace without bitterness.
Richard and I began on a bad foot in the discussion, but we persisted in listening to each other, and I can say we are both pleased with the resulting friendship and growing understanding - though we still dissagree strongly on smoking in pubs! (cheers, Richard!)
On the main theme of this post ther eis the Man from the Daily Mail, The Bog Side Doodle Bug, the resitation Hughes Bakery Van,.
Best wishes for peace
Larry Otway
PS As a northern protestant republican, I disagree that the IRA is motivated by prejudice as is the KKK, rather, Ian Paisly recieved his "doctorate" from Bob Jones University in the US, which untill a few years ago, did not allow inter racial dating, and has real ties to the KKK. Peace.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:06 PM

Spot on with that second song, TJC, but I couldn't see much humour in first, immortalising catastrophes like Loughgall (when the lads went off to do the business and walked into an SAS ambush, which seemed like a fair cop to me - except that an innocent civilian got killed too).

Jock, send me your zipcode/postcode and I'll try to get repeats of Dad's Army and MASH taken off air in your street. Too bad so many copies of Catch-22 slipped through the net - not sure we can retrieve 'em now. Don't know if you remember the Marty Feldman parody of the Battle of Britain, in which The Few were London cabbies, instead of fighter pilots? The best part of it was that the RAF registered a formal complaint! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,Rambam99
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:10 PM

Seeing as how I'm the guy who started this, and who just got home from work - lemme address a few things:

1. I'M Jewish, and yes, There ARE some funny anti-Semitic songs, cruel and unfair as they may be.

2. Anyone who has studied the birth of the state of Israel closely will have learned a couple things. Firstly (if you're in the mood to hate), that the Jews of the mandate days could teach even the Irish a thing or two about why you should hate the Brits F***ing colonialism in places they don't belong, and secondly, that constant terror attacks CAN and DO work, if the local population is hugely against an occupying force. This is something that Israel is learning herself right now in the Gaza strip, isn't she?

3. (You are gonna love this) I am actually quite an Anglophile. The Brits are great folks most of the time, and even when they are enemies they are still interesting. I personally believe that the need (and YES, Dammit! There WAS a need!!!) for the bomb throwing days of the Provos has ended. When was this? A couple of years ago when the Easter accords were signed. The Injustices of the past are unfixable, and the only way Ireland can move forward is to accept that.

4. Glorying in past triumph, strength, and emotion is not a sin. Since America has no stronger or better ally in the world than England, perhaps she should abandon the Star Spangled Banner or Yankee Doodle? I can forgive the English (or the Germans, or my own people, or any who commit crimes,) but we must NEVER FORGET! To that end, I love to occasionally get sloshed at Shaebeen's pub, sing Come out Ye Black & Tans, and root for any nation to knock England out of the World Cup. If that is the extent of my animosity, can anyone fault me?

Nationally Conscious, and American History Teacher, Rambam99

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:24 PM

A belter of a post, Rambam99!

Larry, I know you're hopelessly blinkered on the Irish stuff *BG* but you manage to make a damn sight more sense out of a set of pipes than I ever will. And if by any chance you could lay hands on the lyrics for The Man from the Daily Mail I would even consider giving a certain NY band another plug. Takes me straight back to Saturday afternoons in the Old House bar, 30 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,TJC
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:25 PM

You obviously haven't heard Eire Og singing this song. Funny isn't the word to describe some of the lines but the first verse is quite humorous.

Subject: Lyr Add: MAN FROM THE DAILY MAIL
From: GUEST,TCJ
Date: 14 May 01 - 06:37 PM

MAN FROM THE DAILY MAIL

Now Ireland is a very funny place, sir
It’s a strange and a troubled land.
And the Irish are a bloody funny race, sir
Every girl is becoming a man.

They march to the German goose step,
And whistle Emanuel,
And it wouldn't be surprising, if there be another rising,
Said the man from the Daily Mail.

Every bird flying overhead,
Is whistling treble, I’m a rebel.
Every hen is laying hand grenades over there sir,
I declare sir.

And every cock in the farmyard stock
Crows a triumph for the Gael,
And it wouldn't be surprising if there be another rising
Said the man from the Daily Mail.

Do you want more?

HTML line breaks added --JoeClone, 30-Sep-01.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 May 01 - 07:01 PM

Well done, Ramban! And the rest o' youse layabouts...............you are just about ready for the big leagues of layaboutdom. There are no spots vacant on the roster of Swan, Patterson, Fielding & Lane, but youse could start a team of your own..........We would, of course, whip yer worthless arses in the World Series of Layaboutness.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Celtic-End Singer
Date: 14 May 01 - 07:12 PM

I was always rather fond of the "Fenian Record Player".

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 May 01 - 08:03 PM

There was one on a record called Forces go Folk, possibly published in Germany, called Seamus the Bomber.... all about a bloke who made bombs

Seamus was a bomber,
He made bombs from dusk till dawn

and it had a verse about him dousing the cat in parrafin and setting it alight. 'A lovely man is Seamus, for sure and here's the truth, he's the oly man could ever make a cat go woof.

Can't remember the words or the singer (typical....) but there we go.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Noreen
Date: 14 May 01 - 09:16 PM

GUEST,Rambam99, I have no wish to hijack your thread and I would have put this in a personal message to you if you were a member.

I have no objection whatsoever to you asking for these songs, and many of them may indeed be funny at the right time and in the right place. I take issue with the tasteless wording of your question and particularly the thread title (which I think may have been Scott's objection too).

When posting to this international forum (also a community which means a great deal to me) a little sensitivity can avoid others being needlessly upset. If you want to discuss this further and can't join the Mudcat, you can e-mail me at [e-mail] to avoid taking further space in this thread

Noreen
(brought up in England of Irish parentage)

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 May 01 - 09:19 PM

I'd forgotten about how to make a cat go woof, thanks!

Subject: Lyr Add: MAN FROM THE DAILY MAIL
From: InOBU
Date: 14 May 01 - 10:14 PM

Now Ireland is a very funny place, sir.
It's a strange and a troubled land.
And the Irish are a very funny race, sir.
Every girl's in the Cumman n'Ban.
Every doggie has a tricolor ribbon tied firmly to his tail.
I'm shakin' in me shoes
For I red it in the news,
Said the man from the Daily Mail.

CHORUS: Every bird, upon my word, is singing treble, "I'm a rebel."
Every hen is laying hand grenades over there, sir, I declare, sir.
And every cock of the barnyard stock is crowin' for the Gael
And it wouldn't be suprisin'
If there'd be another risin'
Said the man from the Daily Mail.

Oh, the other day I traveled down to Clare, sir.
There I spied me an old borreen.
Such a bunch of Fenians where there, sir,
Dressed in orange, white and green.
They were marchin' to the German goose step, and singing Grannia Mhale,
And it wouldn't be surprising,
If there be another rising,
Said the man from the Daily Mail. CHORUS

Oh, the country is seeded with sedition.
It's Sinn Fein through and through.
All the people are joining the provisionals
And the password Sinn Fein too.
Oh, the IRA they sent me a time bomb in the mail,
Ah bejazus and begorrah
I'll be getting out tomorrah
Said the man from the Daily Mail.

Something like that. Cheers, - all the best Fionn!
Larry

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 14 May 01 - 11:01 PM

Another Nelson one is Nelson's Farewell.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: marty D
Date: 14 May 01 - 11:36 PM

Lanfranc, I saw Harvey Andrews several times when I lived in the UK, and I'm familiar with "The Soldier". What's your problem with the song? I remember it as a ballad about a heroic act. Very touching. I know there was something in it about some of the people being glad the soldier died, but it's hardly pro-IRA or Pro British, just individuals caught in a drama. Am I remembering it wrong? I have no axe to grind on this issue by the way.

marty

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 15 May 01 - 05:00 AM

LOL, Liz! And thanks Larry - that's a pint of Guinness I owe you by nowe, preferably bottled by P & F McGlade.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 15 May 01 - 05:15 AM

By the way, Rambam, just remember we're an international community here, and it would help if you posted in Esperanto.

Not strictly IRA, but does anyone recognise these lines, and is the tune that goes with them the Ash Grove? (Know the tune, just not sure about its name.)

I'm teaching them Irish and painting pillar boxes
All over in green, sure what more can I do?
But they tell me they want just and Irish Republic
Without any trimmings of red, white and blue.

I'd have been with Collins on the free-state side of the barney, but it's a great song. Wish I could remember the rest of it, and who sang it.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,Joe
Date: 15 May 01 - 05:22 AM

Hello Well Scott you know what If the British Government was so worried about the loss of life from so called terroists acts why the hell don't they give back the rest of Ireland such as they did India and Hong kong. I also know the British wouldn't do such things as shell a city full of innocent people now would they or maybe that one Irish folk song is just a bunch of blarney

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Grab
Date: 15 May 01 - 08:27 AM

Joe, it's rather because the people living there voted by a majority to stay with Britain. Democracy's a bugger that way.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Wolfgang
Date: 15 May 01 - 09:48 AM

It is always interesting which (funny) songs seem acceptable or not depending upon the background of the person in question. See Mrs. Stein doesn't rent to gypsys anymore.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 15 May 01 - 09:59 AM

Fionn-- Lyrics are in DigiTrad; tune is the Ashgrove.

Subject: RE: BS: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: InOBU
Date: 15 May 01 - 11:22 AM

Dear Grab, when you force the majority out of a territory through unfair employment, torture, arrest without warrant, unegual access to housing, in some places un fare voting paterns - such as the 2 for one voting in Derry, well, Democracy is not the word for it. By simple birth rate there would have been a nationalist majority decades ago without the above conditions.
All the best Larry

Subject: RE: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 01 - 03:49 PM

There's a *very* rude song with a chorus about "rubber bullets for the ladies, six inches long and two inches thick", but I can't remember any more of it.

Subject: RE: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,Can't help but wonder
Date: 15 May 01 - 03:58 PM

Noreen, you remind me of a woman in a Government office in Dublin in the 50's. She got excited when I spelled my name in the short form. It was as if the world would end. Well it didn't.

If any should be complaining here it would be me or some of the other Ex Pats ( sorry about that one ) in the USA or OZ etc. In my case I could not bear the confict between those I knew and valued, even friends. It is over OK the people TG have voted. I applaud their humanity and courage. One could go on for ever about the loss of a good life - I certianly had one - but what would that achieve?

I recall meeting a fellow in the UK who at the time was an unwilling and recent emigrant from the North. I found out from the locals both sides had promised him an early ticket to the here-after because he would not join either. The man was constantly drinking, can we blame him?.

I never did bother to find out which religion he was, we never thought that relevant in the Uk.

It is time to let it go! This thread does not offend me, I see it as the inevitable laughter after years of tension and war. It is badly needed.

Subject: RE: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 15 May 01 - 04:22 PM

I think most on this thread know me for my views on Anti-Brit songs in particular so you may find it odd that I don't object to this in the slightest. I think the best way of being drawing attention to any situation you don't like is to poke fun at it. I don't mind in the slightest having the 'mad dogs and englishmen' tag or being laughed at for liking bland food or whatever. Far better than having hateful songs sung about me. At least I can laugh along with the funnies!

Chip in my bit. My mum loves Irish rebel songs and we had a few albums of them. The only funny one I remember was to the 'wearing of the green' tune and had the refrain 'My Father he was orange and my Mother she was green.' Can't remember any more though.

One of our local songwriters, Stanley Accrington, does a cracker as well about the Manchester bombing when amongst all the wreckage a post-box was left in tact. Finishes up with "It's a postbox, Pat, postbox Pat, postbox Pat, what do you think about that?" Lost on anyone who has never seen 'Postman Pat' but hilarious all the same. BTW - the postbox now has a plaque on it!

Keep on taking the p**s instead of shooting and we would all be better off:-)

Cheers

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: ollaimh
Date: 15 May 01 - 04:56 PM

to jock morris.

it seems you are the one who won't let others live in peace.when you and your ilk stop insting on you right to silence others there might be peace.

Subject: RE: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: GUEST,rambam99
Date: 15 May 01 - 05:50 PM

I'd like to thank everyone who contributed to my request, and rest assured I am cataloguing your selections now, I hope more will be posted, as well as any funny Irish song (odds are I already have everything the Clancy Bros did)

Subject: RE: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: InOBU
Date: 15 May 01 - 06:24 PM

The sad thing, is we workers are hurling invective at each other, while the plutocrat bastards who created the cold war, which was the engine for the war in Ireland, as well as so many other places, are laughing so hard the champaine is coming out their noses. Let's wise up and have a truth and reconcillation process. We are all the pig in the middle - not just the fellas in uniform.
Any wonder why England suddunly felt it could talk with the IRA, the same year that the Soviet Union went under, and Irland cast aside it's nuetrality and allowed nato to refuel during the Gulf War? Big nations like the US and England don't fight little nations just for fuck's-sake, they do it for big rotten reasons, and if we get blinded by the politic of the last outrage, we loose, they win.
SO in that light, I continue to put a hand out to any on either side, who will sit down and talk, honestly and openly.
Slan
Larry

Subject: RE: seeking funny I.R.A. Songs
From: InOBU
Date: 15 May 01 - 06:26 PM

PS To any younger mudcatters who may be offended by the language in my post, I appologise. Sometimes grownups get a wee bit out of control, after seeing badness. - Larry