For they're hanging men and women there for the Wearin' o' the Green
This song was written deliberately with a jaunty tune and meter so that when sung in Gaelic, the Brit oppressors would not know it as the protest that it was. by Jack Galway
(libertarian)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
And today the Celtic Tiger stands alone as the finest libertarian nation and marketplace of all. Where did we, in the USA, lose the ideal?
O Paddy dear, and did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground! No more Saint Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen For there's a cruel law ag'in the Wearin' o' the Green." I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand And he said, "How's poor old Ireland, and how does she stand?" "She's the most distressful country that ever yet was seen For they're hanging men and women there for the Wearin' o' the Green."
"So if the color we must wear be England's cruel red Let it remind us of the blood that Irishmen have shed And pull the shamrock from your hat, and throw it on the sod But never fear, 'twill take root there, though underfoot 'tis trod.
When laws can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow And when the leaves in summer-time their color dare not show Then I will change the color too I wear in my caubeen But till that day, please God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green.
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My mother was born in Dublin in 1917, a few blocks from the GPO. I grew up listening to her sing this song, and tell me with great passion of Ireland's wrongs as she learned them in school and from her elders.
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