《The Old Orange Flute》歌词

歌曲： The Old Orange Flute

所属专辑：A Spontaneous Performance Recording

歌手： The Clancy Brothers&Tommy

时长： 03:05

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浣滆瘝 : Traditional[00:03:05]

The Old Orange Flute[00:03:05]

In the county Tyrone, near the town of Dungannon[00:03:05]

Where many's the ruction meself had a hand in[00:03:05]

Bob Williamson lived there, a weaver by trade[00:03:05]

And all of us thought him a stout Orange blade.[00:03:05]

On the twelfth of July as it yearly did come[00:03:05]

Bob played on the flute to the sound of the drum[00:03:05]

You can talk of your fiddles, your harp or your lute[00:03:05]

But there's nothing could sound like the Old Orange Flute.[00:03:05]

But the treacherous scoundrel, he took us all in[00:03:05]

For he married a Papist named Bridget McGinn[00:03:05]

Turned Papish himself and forsook the Old Cause[00:03:05]

That gave us our freedom, religion and laws.[00:03:05]

And the boys in the county made such a stir on it[00:03:05]

They forced Bob to flee to the province of Connaught;[00:03:05]

Took with him his wife and his fixins, to boot,[00:03:05]

And along with the rest went the Old Orange Flute.[00:03:05]

Each Sunday at mass, to atone for past deeds,[00:03:05]

Bob said Paters and Aves and counted his beads[00:03:05]

Till one Sunday morn, at the priest's own require[00:03:05]

Bob went for to play with the flutes in the choir.[00:03:05]

He went for to play with the flutes in the mass[00:03:05]

But the instrument quivered and cried."O Alas!"[00:03:05]

And blow as he would, though he made a great noise,[00:03:05]

The flute would play only "The Protestant Boys".[00:03:05]

Bob jumped up and huffed, and was all in a flutter.[00:03:05]

He pitched the old flute in the blest holy water;[00:03:05]

He thought that this charm would bring some other sound,[00:03:05]

When he tried it again, it played "Croppies Lie Down!"[00:03:05]

And for all he would finger and twiddle and blow[00:03:05]

For to play Papish music, the flute would not go;[00:03:05]

"Kick the Pope" to "Boyne Water" was all it would sound[00:03:05]

Not one Papish bleat in it could e'er be found.[00:03:05]

At a council of priests that was held the next day[00:03:05]

They decided to banish the Old Flute away;[00:03:05]

They couldn't knock heresy out of its head[00:03:05]

So they bought Bob another to play in its stead.[00:03:05]

And the Old Flute was doomed, and its fate was pathetic[00:03:05]

'Twas fastened and burnt at the stake as heretic.[00:03:05]

As the flames rose around it, you could hear a strange noise[00:03:05]

'Twas the Old Flute still a-whistlin' "The Protestant Boys".[00:03:05]

Note: the tune Protestant Boys is also known as Lilliburlero RG[00:03:05]

Recorded by Patric Galvin, Clancys[00:03:05]

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