Thursday 17 March 2016

A song for St Patrick's Day

Many years ago, I was playing at a folk club down South and the person on immediately before me had everyone singing along with this song. When I was introduced, I said, "It's funny hearing that song because my father was from the Orange and my mother was from the Green", which is true.

The roomful of blank faces told me they hadn't a clue what the song they'd just been heartily singing was all about.

3 comments:

  1. Swing your pants

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkaHgoI3IF0

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  2. The generation gap at work there, CL: I'd never heard of Trev & Simon until I played the clip.

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  3. I'd never heard this song before and like you can relate to the lyrics, although in my case it's my Dad who's from an Irish Catholic background and my Mum from a Protestant one.

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