Old Orange Flute, The

DESCRIPTION: A Protestant man marries a Catholic woman, but his flute refuses to convert, and continues to play Orange songs. Ultimately it is burnt at the stake as a heretic.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c.1895 (Graham-TheOrangeSongster)
KEYWORDS: marriage music fire
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Hodgart-FaberBookOfBallads, p. 216, "The Old Orange Flute" (1 text)
OLochlainn-IrishStreetBallads 50, "The Old Orange Flute" (1 text, 1 tune)
Hayward-UlsterSongsAndBalladsOfTheTownAndCountry, pp. 112-113, "The Ould Orange Flute" (1 text)
Smyth/Bush/Long-OrangeLark 27, "The Ould Orange Flute" (1 text, 1 tune)
Graham-TheOrangeSongster, p. 12, "The Ould Orange Flute" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 318, "The Old Orange Flute" (1 text)
DT, OLDFLUTE*
Roud #3013
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Protestant Maid" (subject: religious conversion) and references there
NOTES [18 words]: OLochlainn-IrishStreetBallads: "Learnt in Belfast about 1912; the tune is another version of Villikens." - BS
File: Hodg216

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