《The Old Orange Flute》歌词

歌曲： The Old Orange Flute

所属专辑：A Jug of Punch

歌手： The Clancy Brothers&Tommy

时长： 03:36

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The Old Orange Flute (Live) - The Clancy Brothers/Tommy Makem[00:00:00]

In the county tyrone near the town of dungannon[00:00:55]

Where many's the ruction meself had a hand in[00:00:59]

Bob williamson lived there a weaver by trade[00:01:02]

And all of us thought him a stout orange blade[00:01:06]

On the twelfth of july as it yearly did come[00:01:09]

Bob played on the flute to the sound of the drum[00:01:13]

You can talk of your fiddles your harp or your lute[00:01:16]

But there's nothing could sound like the old orange flute[00:01:20]

But the treacherous scoundrel he took us all in[00:01:24]

For he married a papist named bridget mcginn[00:01:27]

Turned papish himself and forsook the old cause[00:01:30]

That gave us our freedom religion and laws[00:01:34]

And the boys in the county made such a stir on it[00:01:38]

They forced bob to flee to the province of connaught[00:01:41]

Took with him his wife and his fixins to boot[00:01:45]

And along with the rest went the old orange flute[00:01:48]

Each sunday at mass to atone for past deeds[00:01:51]

Bob said paters and aves and counted his beads[00:01:55]

Till one sunday morn at the priest's own require[00:01:59]

Bob went for to play with the flutes in the choir[00:02:02]

He went for to play with the flutes in the mass[00:02:05]

But the instrument quivered and cried o alas[00:02:09]

And blow as he would though he made a great noise[00:02:12]

The flute would play only the protestant boys[00:02:16]

Bob jumped up and huffed and was all in a flutter[00:02:19]

He pitched the old flute in the blest holy water[00:02:23]

He thought that this charm would bring some other sound[00:02:26]

When he tried it again it played croppies lie down[00:02:30]

And for all he would finger and twiddle and blow[00:02:33]

For to play papish music the flute would not go[00:02:37]

Kick the pope to boyne water was all it would sound[00:02:40]

Not one papish bleat in it could e'er be found[00:02:43]

At a council of priests that was held the next day[00:02:47]

They decided to banish the old flute away[00:02:50]

They couldn't knock heresy out of its head[00:02:54]

So they bought bob another to play in its stead[00:02:57]

And the old flute was doomed and its fate was pathetic[00:03:01]

'Twas fastened and burnt at the stake as heretic[00:03:06]

As the flames rose around it you could hear a strange noise[00:03:10]

'Twas the old flute still a whistlin' the protestant boys[00:03:13]

Toora lu toora lay[00:03:17]

Twas fastened and burned at the stake as a heretic[00:03:20]