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Lyr Add: The Campsite at Drumcree
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE CAMPSITE AT DRUMCREE From: GUEST,Purple And Orange Date: 16 Jan 02 - 08:59 AM As an occasional visitor to this place, I'm bothered by the preponderance of songs in your databases that celebrate the Nationalist tradition in Ireland. It's time this imbalance was redressed. So here's a wee song I collected at a true blue sing-song a wee while back. It's to the air that the other side uses for their "Wearing Of The Green".
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST Date: 16 Jan 02 - 12:54 PM Yes a work of art.The All Ireland Cringe Champion. |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Hillheader Date: 16 Jan 02 - 02:03 PM Good to see the Unionist ability to rewrite history is alive and well. To whom are you loyal? The Queen?? It was her government who appointed the Parades Commission so not accepting their ruling means you are disobeying a Royal command!! Are you part of the same Loyal brethen who throws pipe bombs at BRITISH soldiers? Or even primary kids on their way to school? Until I saw this I did not realise that people could type with their buttocks. And before anyone spouts on about intolerance -- that works both ways. What would American say if the KKK wanted to march in Harlem? Or what would our "Guest" friend say if Nationalists in Ulster wanted to parade down the Shankhill Road every St Patrick's Day? I know it takes all kinds to make a world, but we could be doing with a few less of some of them -- on BOTH sides of the Irish divide. Davebhoy |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Aidan Crossey Date: 16 Jan 02 - 05:56 PM Davebhoy ... I think some hallion might be havin' us on ... "I love to go a-wandering along the mountain track"? A parody of "Wearing Of The Green"? I reckon it's a joke ... like Lurgan Town was a pisstake in the last century.
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 16 Jan 02 - 07:24 PM Here's a nice little article (thanks Fib for pointing out this site).. *grin* Drumcree special edition of the Portadown News slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Hillheader Date: 17 Jan 02 - 12:49 AM Alison Thanks for the link. That is superb!! Robert Burns line about seeing "ourselves as others see us.." springs to mind. Davebhoy |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 17 Jan 02 - 12:52 AM the thanks goes to Fibula Matlock she posted it in another thread... I laughed a lot.... the Christmas and Election editions are worth a look too slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Purple And Orange Date: 17 Jan 02 - 04:16 AM Derrymacash (Why anybody would want to name themselves after thon wee shinner huxter is beyond me … but there, as they say, you go.) That remark you made about is wide of the mark, boyo, by a long shot. It's common knowledge that the "Campsite At Drumcree" was written by our loyal brothers as they camped out in that first summer of discontent. All hands chipped in, feverishly editing the words and honing it to perfection. Sorry if I'm coming on like a Queens University lecturer, but it's this authenticity which gives the song such resonance among our community. The disparaging remarks you've made continue the age-old fallacy that it's only the taiglodytes that have any element of creativity or soul. The type of urban myth which no doubt contributes to the fact that Daniel O'Donnell records sell in cartloads the world over, whereas a troubadour from our own tradition, the Rev. William McCrea for example, struggles to shift any units whatsoever. I'll give yous all a hand to think with a few more verses which a fellow white-glover passed my way. On holidays some brethren go up North to Portrush Town But I like to spend my fortnight in a field near Portadown There are no flashing slot machines and no foaming billows roar But we sit around the fire and sing "The Sash My Father Wore" "The Sash My Father Wore", "The Sash My Father Wore" We sit around the fire and sing "The Sash My Father Wore" We don't care if it's lashing, our camp we'll not desert For the causes's sake me boys, I'll proudly wade through dirt (Besides my family residence is a few yards down the road I sneak in round the back some nights when it gets a wee bit cold When it gets a wee bit cold, when it gets a wee bit cold I sneak in round the back some nights when it gets a wee bit cold) |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 17 Jan 02 - 04:26 AM If I was religious (which I'm not) I would say 'God deliver us from these pillocks'. I grew up in West Central Scotland of Protestant (Church of Scotland) upbringing and was surrounded by bigots like you 'Purple and Orange'. Live in the future not in the past. And while you talk about your right to march remember those wee boys who the bigots torched to death in their own house. They had a right to live. |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Purple And Orange Date: 17 Jan 02 - 05:06 AM |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Purple And Orange Date: 17 Jan 02 - 05:07 AM You left me speechless above there, hi!
Help! All han's are swingin' for me now. Seems that the world just isn't ready yet for the heartfelt paeans of the poets laureate of the causes of stagnation, pomposity and trimuphalism.
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Hillheader Date: 17 Jan 02 - 01:48 PM I too am from West of Scotland Presbyterian stock and "Orange and Purple" you are a dinosaur with a broken neck and thus can only look back. The bible claims that the prophet is never recognised in his own land. That's why Daniel O'Donnell sells all over the world and McCrea only sells in the Shankhill -- or is that analogy too deep for you? Davebhoy |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Hillheader Date: 17 Jan 02 - 03:53 PM Alison/Fubula Matlock I have just looked at the Portadown News site and it is absolutely hilarious!! The ability to take the most extreme views on either side and laugh at them both equally is a tremendous skill == and it works. I don't feel as as bad about our "Orange and Purple" friend now. Thanks to both of you. Davebhoy |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 17 Jan 02 - 05:58 PM to be honest I think he should send his song off to them.. they'd probably publish it....lol slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: paddymac Date: 17 Jan 02 - 06:46 PM I'm crying so hard from laughing at the the song (especially the later verses), and some of the exchanges, that I can hardly see to type. I think that this thread cries out for the talents of our many skilled versifiers -maybe it should even be a "song challenge." Let the invisible O&B poster feel the sting of the thousand quills of the MCOL (Mudcat Corps of Lyricists). But on the upside, isn't it better to be ranting in cyberspace than in the real world? |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:17 PM My guess is Guest purple and orange is Conrad Bladey, Internet Orange kook, who maintains an "Irish" website. He isn't Irish, and he lives in Baltimore, and is universally loathed by the DC/Baltimore Irish session folks, as I recall.
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 17 Jan 02 - 07:19 PM I thought he was serious until it got to the verse
On holidays some brethren go up North to Portrush Town brilliant!!! lol..... maybe he can do another verse about going to Portrush to buy Paisley, McCrae and Robinson family group postcards (I kid you not!!) in Grahams, so you can send them around the world to people who don't believe such things exist!!........... meanwhile in this weeks Portadown news slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Jimmy C Date: 17 Jan 02 - 11:48 PM Alison. The Portadown News is a scream, we need more of this type of attitude. Just yesterday I was listening to a taped talk by "Patch Adams", (the doctor whose story was made into a movie starring Robin Williams.). He dresses like a clown and treats his patients with humour instead of drugs. He was speaking to a gathering in Ottawa, Canada, Part of his speech was about "the value of humour" and was quick to point out that throughout the ages, " Scientific research has yet to prove that being serious is beneficial in any way ". Sure makes you think. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE BOUL' ORANGE CAMPSITE AT DRUMCREE From: GUEST,Isaac McKittery Date: 18 Jan 02 - 04:26 AM First of all a word to the detractors and apologists … In a post above one of youse claims that "until now you didn't know anyone could type with their buttocks". Well I've got news for you! People with fundamentalist Protestant views can do just about anything with their buttocks. Typing's a doddle, it's wee buns. If you want a case in point, think only of our dear American Brother in Christ, the Reverend Brother Jerry Lee Lewis, a man that could likely play The Green Grassy Slopes Of The Boyne on the piano with his arse. (And could probably make a good stab at it farting down a mouth organ as well.) So before proceeding any further, let's hear it for the nimble buttocks of Lutheranism, the spry arse-cheeks of Calvinism (and I'm not talking Klein) and the dextrous rumps of fundamentalism. And another correction! Purple and Orange is in no way connected with Brother Conrad, whose views he describes as namby-pamby and liberal. Purple and Orange is none other than Brother Gordy McMordy, Grand Master of LOL 666, Hell's Mouth, and henceforth shall contribute to this debate in his own name. To proceed! Brother McMordy – a bare tit and a furled trouser to you! I think you're a wee bit confused. I didn't write the fine song you've published. I was responsible for "The Boul' Orange Campsite at Drumcree" which goes to the tune of the shinners' "Kelly The Boy From Killane". An aisy mistake, so rest aisy on your camp-bed. I reproduce it below for the greater glory of our vengeful Lord. THE BOUL' ORANGE CAMPSITE AT DRUMCREE (Copyright Isaac McKittery) What's the news, what's the news, my boul' Orangeman, with your bowler, your brolly and your sash? Why in such haste through the streets do you race and why in such hurry do you dash? Goodly news, goodly news do I bring unto you, goodly news do I carry to thee For all of its might England quakes at the sight of the boul' Orange campsite of Drumcree Though we're up to our oxters in cow-clap and glar, with no telly, no toilet nor no bath We will still stand our ground like those men of renown who held out in Derry to the last Oh the Fenians may wrap the green flag around as into the grave they are sent But when I'm deceased, if oul' Ulster's not released, you may wrap Brother Isaac in a tent And when I'm enrolled in the heavenly fold I won't need no mansion in the sky Some cloth and some pegs in a canvas kit-beg is all that I'll need to get by When Glory I gain, I will never complain if I'm quartered along with my kind Cos I'd hate for to spend my days without end living like a pearl among swine |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: paddymac Date: 18 Jan 02 - 06:44 AM Isaac - "LOL 666"? is that like "lol" or "rotflmao". There's been so many great jokes here over the years, I can't remember which one was number 666. Can you refresh for us? You chose a great tune for your parody, and your sense of humor peeks through throughout your post. Is it possible you're an orangeman without horns and a tail? I have a dear friend who, in all honesty, proclaims himself an "Orangeman for a united Ireland." His origins are in an ultra conservative brand of orangeism, but he's grown way beyond it. I empathised with him when his son married a papist and converted. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE NEW JERUSALEM From: GUEST,Brother Gordy McMordy, LOL 666 Date: 18 Jan 02 - 06:48 AM Brother Isaac … tit bared and trouser furled, y'oul' goat! Yer a cat man so y'are for givin' me away like thon! I wonder if the owners of the Mudcat are aware that their site is situated on a traditional cyber high way route used by generations of cyber-Orangemen? Your wee song is all very well and good. But I'm in a highbrow frame of min' right now and so I thought I'd reprint the lyrics of "Till We Build The New Jerusalem (Along The Oul' Garvaghy Road)". Keep the faith. THE NEW JERUSALEM And did those feet in ancient time Walk up the oul' Garvaghy Road? And did the holy Lamb of God Round Edenderry take a stroll? And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon this loyal town? And was Jerusalem builded here In dear oul' Orange Portadown? Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spear! Oh, clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand Til we have built Jerusalem In Ulster's orange and pleasant land! |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Geordie McMordy Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:17 AM Hello there … Geordie McMordy, son and heir to the bitterest bigot ever to spend the afternoon of the 12th pissed out of his skull on warm Guinness and Mundies in the field at Scarva. Ye alright there, da, ye big bollocks, ye? The mention up above there by Alison (are you our sort, girl and if so are you coortin'? ) prompted me to write in. I'm in a Pretenders cover band. We play Orange Halls, Black Preceptories, Coming-Out Parties, Weddings (not Mixed!!) … you know the type of thing. We're called "The Defenders". (If you want to book us ddrop me or me da a line!) One of our more poignant songs is about a Drumcree veteran receiving a Paisley family picture postcard … here it goes Back on the chain gang (with thanks to Chrissie Hynde) I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh You had your big burly arm around Kyle The world doesn't know like I do, oh oh oh oh The pain 'neath that big cheesy smile We're back on the train Oh, back on the chain gang A circumstance beyond our control, oh oh oh oh Made the front of the 'Tele that night Said we'd die or be cast into hell, oh oh oh oh They threw sand in our eyes and said it was lies We're back on the train Oh, back on the chain gang The Powers That Be That force us to live like we do Bring me to my knees When I see what they've done to you But I'll die as I stand here today In clabber from instep to knee If up our traditional route To walk we're not free I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh It was the happiest day of my life Your big bulldog face seemed to say oh oh oh oh Continue the fight Now we're back on the train Back on the chain gang
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Subject: Lyr Add: PAISLEY'S FUSILIERS From: GUEST,Isaac McKittery Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:51 AM The awr one I min' is to the tune of a song the tims sing which is called "McAlpine's Fusiliers", written I believe, by one of a rake of gather-ups from thon hellhole in the Free State, Dublin. Anyways, it's about our side's vale of tears and sea of woes. It's called "Paisley's Fusiliers". PAISLEY'S FUSILIERS (spoken) It was in the year of '98 when I became a brawr The smile on my oul' fawr's face; the pride on that of mawr They had a do that very night at the local LOL (Not a temperance lodge, thank God, we all got drunk to hell!) With me sash, me gamp and bowler, I looked the very part As out I strode out upon the twelfth, I near broke me mawr's heart But the grantin' of that honour's nearly been the death of me For I'm frozen to my bollocks in a churchyard in Drumcree As down the glen came the Orangemen with their banners furled before them With their flutes and drums down the road they come; it's hard for the Catholics to ignore them They're headed for Garvaghy Road, but their journey will soon end in tears When the cops say "No, back up the road you go" to Paisley's Fusiliers These well-dressed gents sit in their tents and think of the glories of the past Aughrim, Boyne, The General Strike, each image ever greater than the last It sours our gall and it breaks our balls, I don't think about it else I'd near explode That we can't process a hundred yards more or less up the Garvaghy Road The shanty town outside Portadown shines like a beacon through the land From this very site is being waged the fight some call the Ulster Protestants' last stand We'll pursue our cause, and we'll challenge the laws, though the battle it may last for many years But the day will come, when we'll overcome, say Paisley's Fusiliers |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Fibula Mattock Date: 18 Jan 02 - 08:58 AM Holyland Palestine, Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo Shall we gather by the river For a crusade to Lower Ormeau? |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Portadown News Editor Date: 18 Jan 02 - 10:13 AM Hi there folk music types I'm the Editor of the Portadown News, and I thought I'd fry your heads a little by revealing that I have always considered myself a Unionist. (Although not an Orangeman.) Yours The Editor |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Fibula Mattock Date: 18 Jan 02 - 10:30 AM Editor of the Portadown News, if indeed it is you, sure you're evidently an equal-opportunity satirist and as such are probably entitled to a whole host of cross-community grants to bring our divided communities togther in peace, love and harmony. You might even get enough lottery funding to take Freeserve to court. |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Portadown News Editor Date: 18 Jan 02 - 10:34 AM Hell I'm not even allowed to keep my own job. The Andersonstown News got my fired three days before Xmas after printing my name and where I worked, then calling my company and threatening to call the police and their solicitors over my 'sectarianism'. Besides, they don't give grants to websites with tits in them. I checked. |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Fibula Mattock Date: 18 Jan 02 - 10:55 AM Andytown News calling the police! Sweet Mother of God, the reforms have worked!! |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Portadown News Editor Date: 18 Jan 02 - 11:11 AM The irony was lost on no-one (except Robin Livingstone, Editor of that mighty organ.) I thought an accusation of sectarianism from the Angrytown News was pretty ironic as well. |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Fibula Mattock Date: 18 Jan 02 - 11:22 AM Indeedy. The sort of irony that belts you round the head like a breeze block. I suppose it explains why they don't find your esteemed organ amusing, since they have about the same concept of irony as Alanis Morrisette. Aah, but still, they'll never suffer from splinters in their arses. Mind you, there's that entire dinner table in their own eye... |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 18 Jan 02 - 10:06 PM lol... love the songs boys... and sure isn't it a pity I am courtin'.... because the picture you paint of cold nights in the campsite is so appealing... how could a girl resist????? ...*grin* if you really are the editor of the Portadown News... thanks for a job well done.......... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Hillheader Date: 19 Jan 02 - 02:47 AM Sorry it took so long to come up with this but work is greatly interfering with the rest of my life!!!
Oh Paddy dear and did you hear
An in consideration
On St Patrick's Day in Dublin
The pipes will play The Soldiers Sash
As as this new enlightenment
With Martin playing the Lambeg
They boys will fly their banners high
And then they're o'er to London
As they all sit round the telly Davebhoy
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Subject: Lyr Add: ME OUL DRUMCREE TENT From: GUEST,Isaac McKittery Date: 26 Jan 02 - 05:54 PM Aye Davebhoy, yer a bunnel o' laughs ... proof positive that scotchmen should keep their nebs out of our business. Nigh ... to work!
This one goes to the tune of a song once sang by Richard Hayward - with a name like thon, surely one of ours - called "The Bright Silvery Light Of The Moon".
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com Date: 26 Jan 02 - 06:15 PM Do they ever march together in Ireland? I saw a parade of sorts in Newfoundland and there marchers in both Orange and Green and they all went to church after as I recall. mg |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SAMMY I HARDLY KNEW YE From: GUEST,Issac McKittery Date: 28 Jan 02 - 07:19 AM This wee one's to the air of "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" – a song which, I am told, is popular with the booze- and priest-ridden unfortunates of the Unfree State. SAMMY I HARDLY KNEW YE While walking the road from Sweet Drumcree ha-roo ha-roo While walking the road from Sweet Drumcree ha-roo ha-roo While walking the road from Sweet Drumcree I met with Doctor Pais-a-lee "In the name of God, what's up with thee?! Sammy, I hardly knew ye" "Where are your gloves that once were white, ha-roo, ha-roo Where are your gloves that once were white, ha-roo, ha-roo Where are your gloves that once were white And now are plastered with dort and shite An offence they are unto my sight Sammy I hardly knew ye" "And your sash was once was so fine and old, ha-roo, ha-roo Your sash was once so fine and old, ha-roo, ha-roo Your sash was once so fine and old Its edges trimmed with thread of gold Now it's splattered with gutters and spotted with mould Sammy, I hardly knew ye" "Your shoes that once shone like the sun, ha-roo, ha-roo Your shoes that once shone like the sun, ha-roo, ha-roo Your shoes that once shone like the sun Are muddy and squelchy and covered in dung You're altogether a disgrace to us Huns Sammy I hardly knew ye" "Oh Reverend Doctor if I might speak, ha-roo, ha-roo Oh Reverend Doctor if I might speak, ha-roo, ha-roo Oh Reverend Doctor if I might speak Your forgiveness I most gravely seek I know I look like a bit of freak" Sammy I hardly knew ye "But I'm living rough these days, you see, ha-roo, ha-roo I'm living rough these days, you see, ha-roo, ha-roo I'm living rough these days you see In a tent in a campsite in Sweet Drumcree I live like a tramp for the Orangery" Sammy I hardly knew ye "Here's forgiveness Brother Sam ha-roo ha-roo Here's forgiveness Brother Sam ha-roo ha-roo Here's forgiveness Brother Sam And all who camp and caravan In that spot not far from the River Bann Sammy I hardly knew ye"
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Subject: Lyr Add: PAIS-A-LEE From: GUEST,Isaac McKittery Date: 28 Jan 02 - 09:10 AM This wee ditty that's been doin' the roun's of lodges throughout mid-Ulster is based on thon oul' Amerikayne come-all-ye "Stack-a-lee". It's called "Pais-a-lee". PAIS-A-LEE In a pub in Portydown on a dark and drizzly night Gerry Adams and Pais-a-lee had one terrible fight All about that Orange bowler hat Pais-a-lee walked to the bar-room and he called for a glass of beer Turned around to Gerry Adams, said "What are you doin' here?" "Waitin' for a train, please bring my woman home" "Pais-a-lee, oh Pais-a-lee, please don't take my life Got three little children and a weepin' lovin' wife You're a bad man, bad man Pais-a-lee" "God bless your children and I'll take care of your wife You stole my Orange bowler, now I'm bound to take your life" All about that Orange bowler hat Pais-a-lee turned to Gerry Adams and he shot him right through the head Only taking one shot to kill Gerry Adams dead All about that Orange bowler hat Sent for the doctor, well the doctor he did come Just pointed out Pais-a-lee, said "Now what have you done? You're a bad man, bad man Pais-a-lee" Six big horses and a rubber-tired hack Hauled him off to Milltown, but they failed to bring him back All about that Orange bowler hat Back home in oul' Portydown I heard the bulldogs bark It must have been oul' Pais-a-lee stumblin in the dark He's a bad man, gonna land him right back in jail Police walked on to Pais-a-lee, he was lying fast asleep Police catched oul' Pais-a-lee, and he jumped forty feet He's a bad man, gonna land him back in jail Well they got oul' Pais-a-lee and they laid him right back in jail Couldn't get a man around to go Pais-a-lee's bail All about that Orange bowler hat Pais-a-lee turned to the jailer and said "Jailer, I can't sleep 'Round my bedside Gerry Adams began to creep" All about that Orange bowler hat |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST Date: 28 Jan 02 - 09:15 AM March together down the Garvaghy Road! What a novel idea. Catholics celebrating their own oppression with the oppressors. While we're at it, why doesn't Ariel Sharon go to a Muslim temple to pray? |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THE DICKS OF MAGHERALIN From: GUEST,Raparee Date: 28 Jan 02 - 11:23 AM Various people were commenting on the Ducks of Magheralin a few weeks ago. Here's the update!
THE DICKS OF MAGHERALIN
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 28 Jan 02 - 10:21 PM Isaac...... I have been wondering..... what sort of trousers do you have? you don't have any of those gorgeous purple ones with the orange piping down the seams, do you?.... you know the ones they team up with the subtle orange jackets with the fringed epaulettes?......... time for a cold shower I think......... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Hillheader Date: 29 Jan 02 - 01:14 AM Alison You have to get out more!!! Stop this now or you're in danger of dragging your knuckles as you walk. Davebhoy |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Issac McKittery Date: 29 Jan 02 - 04:49 AM Alison … would you away outa thon, chil' dear. Sure I couldn't be doin' wi' thon frippery. A black suit and a black tie, white shirt, white gloves, an umbrella and a bowler hat, topped off with me oul' da's sash … that's more my style. Though, min' you, daughter dear, there's damn the bit of cleanness I can keep about myself at all livin' like a wild baste with nothing over my head but an oul' bit of waxed cloth propped up on a few oul' sticks. Like a bedouin … an' me that has lan' an' men under me an' all! Oh Lord, damn the sowl of whoever got us into this tight spot. Now, the Reverend William Marshall, "The Bard of Tyrone", wrote a wee poem one time called "Me An' Me Da" – which you might know otherwise as "Livin' In Drumlister". Myself and a clatter of the oul' diehards were sittin' roun' the fire night before last, tryin' to gain a bit of heat before lyin' down in our tents and between us we made a new poem out of his oul' one. See what you think. Oh, and by the way, Raparee, you're a guttery-gubbed glipe and an ingnorant big gulpen. I'll hear no more of your runnin' down the good people of Magheralin! I'm camped in Drumcree churchyard Though I'm getting' very oul' I love to wear my fawr's sash But it doesn't bar much coul' There's de'il a man in this townlan' Was claner r'ared nor me But I'm in clabber since I listed To camp out at Drumcree I lie down in the gutters To have my nightly rest A stripe o' cloth above me And me wi' a bawd chest! But till the struggle's over And dear oul' Ulster's free I'll pad through Drumcree churchyard In clabber to the knee You'll never fin' me wav'rin' I'll be loyal to the en' Our freedom and religion I'm committed to defen' Though I'm a tiny bit arthritic In my elbow and my knee I'll defy the worl' by campin' In the churchyard at Drumcree Oh me name is Brother Isaac And I'll never ben' me knee To London or to Dublin Or the Roman Holy See I'll live an' die in clabber If that it is what's required For Ulster, like a hippo I will wallow in the mire So come all ye sons of William And the boul' Ahoghill Doc Ye fifers and drum-baters Of good oul' Orange stock Come gather up your sleeping bags Your tents and pegs and ropes And camp in Drumcree churchyard This bastion of hope! |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 02 - 06:55 AM Fair play to you Issac, Yer right there, it`s all for a good cause. I have just come out of Ward 3 North in Craigavon Hospital after a Kidney transplant and it was all due to the gutters and damp on thon hill in Drumcree. I tell you now Brother Issac I will be back on thon hill again and the good Lord help the crater that`s lying next to me, for he`ll be like a Mexican wet-back. Derryadd Sam. |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 29 Jan 02 - 06:58 AM I'm sorry to hear that Isaac, (although I did love the verse... )... I thought we'd have made a lovely couple... you in your orange and purple, and me in my tartan mini skirt, sexy white knee socks and DMs..... *grin* mind you I suppose my knee socks wouldn't have stayed white with all that crawling around in sheughs!! slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: Fibula Mattock Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:02 AM alison! Ye dorty wee hoor!! |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:21 AM takes one to know one wee doll... and don't come over all high and mighty wi' me ...... I know what you Ards peninsula girls are like.... sneaking around collecting sashes...... *grin* slainte alison |
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Subject: Lyr Add: STONES IN ME KIDNEYS From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:28 AM Ach, Sam, me boul' stalwart. Glad that the Craigavon mob got your kidney sorted out. Sure if it had give you any more bawr I'd've wheeked it out myself with my Swiss Army Knife. If you'd been one o' the awr sort, they'd've pickled thon oul' kidney and preserved it as a relic. The oul' Shinners would've been ben'in' the knee to it and mutterin' into their oul' beads for the salvation of their sowls. But sure when you were away, didn't we write you a wee song about your kidney stones … it's to the tune of thon oul' "Waltzing Matilda". STONES IN ME KIDNEYS Once a jolly Orangeman Put up his oul' tent upon A hill in the spot That is known as Drumcree He went for a slash And he poolied pebble-dash On the ground he did thrash From his oul kid-a-nees Stones in me kidneys Stones in me kidneys Cause me to howl Aye, they cause me to moan It's ruined my vacation In my canvas habitation I must get an operation On me oul' kidney stone And as for you, Alison, you dorty-minded huzzie. I'd say you'd have a sheugh or two on you that a man'd be inclined to crawl around in right enough. Thon outfit you describe ... it would torn a b'y on, so it would! |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Isaac McKittery Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:30 AM Ach, sorry there now, people. Forgot to sign myself in thon last time. Wouldn't want thon Alison to think she was bein' chatted up by one of the awr brethren. Heaven above ... but the thought of it. I might need to crawl into my tent and twirl me baton ... |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: alison Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:48 AM never really went for baton twirlers myself... but you know thon boys that twirl the long string things on the banners..... now thon really gets the juices goin'......lol slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:53 AM Good lord, above, Alison … but I'm getting the hots for you big time, so I am. I'm only after making up this wee song for ye. Would it tempt ye to come visit me in me lonely vigil on Drumcree hill. Mine's the big frame tent on top o' the hill, orange (naturally), with a pair of Union Jack boxer shorts flyin' from the top o' it. The wee verse is to the tune of a Donegal march called "Kitty O'Connor", which Altan play as part of a set with that fine oul' Scottish tune "Cam' Ye By Atholl". (There ye go, nigh! Ye didn't think I had any knowledge of thon sort of music, did ye? Well let's keep it a wee secret between ourselves …) By the way ... that lol thing ... I'll go one better. Here goes. lol rbp. D'ye get me? Once a fenian filly Took a shine to this oul' Billy Who lived out on a hilly Overlooking Portydown He spurned all her advances Didn't like oul' mixed romances Till at last the circumstances Fairly brought him roun' She dressed up like a billy girl It fairly made his baton whirl And his oul banner did unfurl And his arch fair straightened out And on his fife she played a tune "The Rising of the Fenian Moon" It nearly made oul' Isaac swoon And his eyeballs to pop out
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Subject: RE: SONG ADD : The Campsite At Drumcree From: GUEST,Issac McKittery Date: 29 Jan 02 - 07:54 AM Holy Book! You've got me that flustered I didn't sign in again! Thon was me up above, there, hon!
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