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26 Aug 97 - 01:58 PM (#11259) Subject: To the tune of Yellow Rose of Texas From: MajorTom (majortom@netcom.com) Boy I feel dumb. I'm looking for an Irish tune, done to "Yellow rose of Texas". It's about an Orange Lad who steals a phonograph from a Knights of Columbus Hall, ro some such, and the only thing the phonograph will play is IRA songs. Sort of an Ould Orange Flute, in reverse. |
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28 Aug 97 - 05:07 AM (#11353) Subject: RE: To the tune of From: Wolfgang (Hell) Not much of a help, but I think I remember the title: "The Fenian record player". Wolfgang |
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23 Jul 02 - 04:03 AM (#752884) Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: FENIAN RECORD PLAYER From: Joan from Wigan THE FENIAN RECORD PLAYER (Words: Crawford Howard; Tune: Yellow Rose of Texas) Wee [G]Willie John McFadden was a loyal Ulster Prod Who [C]thought that Ian Paisley was [D]one step down from God He [G]scorned the little children in the back street of Ardoyne And he [C]thought that history started with the [D]Battle of the [G]Boyne And he [C]thought that history started with the [D]Battle of the [G]Boyne One day he took the brick in his hands and dandered up the Falls He was hollering 'Up the Rangers' and hummin' Derry's Walls He broke the big shop window to annoy the Pope of Rome He took the record player and then he started home He took the record player and then he started home Next night they had a hooley at the local Orange Hall Wee Willie took his player to make music for the ball He chose a stack of records of a very loyal kind But when the music started he nearly lost his mind But when the music started he nearly lost his mind This Fenian record player was a rebel to the core It played out songs the Orange Hall had never heard before For Golly's Brae and Derry's Walls it didnt give a fig It speeded up God Save the Queen till it sounded like a jig It speeded up God Save the Queen till it sounded like a jig Well the boys were plain demented, to the ground Wee Will was thrown They kicked his ribs in one by one to the tune of Garryowen They threw him out the window to the song of Old Sinn Fein They kicked him all down Sandy Row to A Nation Once Again They kicked him all down Sandy Row to A Nation Once Again There's a moral to this story, what it is I cannot say Oh maybe it's the ancient verse, crime it will not pay If you ask Wee Willie McFadden, he'll say let crime be blown If you want to pinch a record player, do it up the Shankill Road If you want to pinch a record player, do it up the Shankill Road |
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11 Jul 25 - 06:13 AM (#4225477) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Fenian Record Player From: GUEST some verses missing |