Mine is Tom Lehrer’s “The Irish Ballad”:
About a maid I’ll sing a song,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
About a maid I’ll sing a song
Who didn’t have her family long.
Not only did she do them wrong,
She did ev’ryone of them in, them in,
She did ev’ryone of them in.
Done by an Irish guy but fake, “Flow River Flow” by Ding Dong O’Reilly is kinda funny.
Green like green kryptonite,
she are green!
That’s not an Irish ballad.
This is an Irish ballad.
Sorry to be kind of jerkish, but I am going to make a stupid suggestion: the chorus ought to be “Are she green. Are she green.” Because the Celtic language naturally puts the verb at the beginning of a sentence, and, well, “are she” sounds vaguely like “Irish”.
No, still sounds wrong. I would go with “She’s/she is green” or “Is she green?” or “Throatwarbler Mangrove”.
There’s also this offering from Dennis Leary:
They come over here and they take all our land
They chop of our heads and they boil them in oil
Our children are leaving and we have no heads
We drink and we sing and we drink and we die
We have no heads, no we have no heads
Dennis Learey’s fake Irish song doesn’t sound too far off from the actual “Wearin’ of the Green”.
It was especially relevant two days ago;)
And let us not forget the most important St. Patrick’s Day tradition:
I apologize. I actually did search for it, but failed to spot it.
We drink and we die and continue to drink.
I shaved some off, just a reminder not to post the full lyrics to anything on here.
Oops! Sorry. Thanks for the edit.
(Sigh…ninjaed and noted! I gonna go eat worms!)
(But…damn, it’s a wonderful fun song!)
Green grow the rushes, oh?
Would you like to buy some?
Maybe just short-term rental would suffice?
Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear the news that’s crawlin’ round?
Our protein sweet by law’s forbid to dig from Irish ground!
The humble Irish dinner bowl no more shall writhe and squirm
For there’s a cruel law agin’ the eatin’ of the worm!
The eatin’ of the worm!
The eatin’ of the worm!
For there’s a cruel law agin’ the eatin’ of the worm!
Is “St. Brendan’s Fair Isle” a traditional folk song or a modern composition?
Another question, if anyone knows: In view of their history . . . how did the Irish ever get a reputation for luck, of all things?!
Maybe Teela Brown would know. She should be the expert on luck. It is in her genes.