Rifles of the IRA

So I saw this Billy connolly Video on youtube right;

And because I had the little bagpipe tune he sings near the end stuck in my head for a few days I started looking for scottish bagpipe music.

Shut up.

And eventually I found a catchy little Irish number, that does not contain bagpipes whatsoever, called "Rifles of the IRA" sung by wolfe tones, which is ridiuclously catchy but here's the lyrics:

In nineteen hundred and sixteen
The forces of the crown
For to take Orange, White, and Green
Bombarded Dublin Town
But in '21, Britannia's sons
Were forced earn their pay, when
The black and tans, like lightening ran
From the Rifles of the IRA!

They burned their way through Munster
Then laid Leinster on the rack
Through Connacht, and through Ulster
Marched the men in brown and black
They shot down wives and children
In their own heroic way, but
The black and tans, like lightening ran
From the Rifles of the IRA!

They hanged young Kevin Barry high
Just a lad of eighteen years
Cork City's flames lit up in the sky

But our brave lads new no fear
The Cork brigade with hand-grenades
In ambush wait and lay, and
The black and tans, like lightening ran
From the Rifles of the IRA!

The tans were got, taken out and shot
By a brave and valiant few
Sean Treacy, Dinny Lacey
And Tom Barry's gallant crew
Though we're not free yet
We won't forget
Until our dying day, how
The black and tans, like lightening ran
From the Rifles of the IRA!

It is however very very catchy like so much chlamydia, so if I don't post for a while I have probably been lynched by a mob of orangemen.

Here's some more Billy Connolly in the mean time, because he is awefully funny donchaknow.