You Ribbonmen of Ireland

DESCRIPTION: Ribbonmen: "Long may you reign May you roll in joy and splendour Till you raise your flag again." The singer recalls taking the Orange drum at Segimore. The Protestant "hates our religion and our ways" and curses any man that goes to church.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1955 (IRRCinnamond01)
KEYWORDS: Ireland political religious
FOUND IN: Ireland
ST RcYRiMoI (Full)
Roud #3081
RECORDINGS:
Robert Cinnamond, "You Ribbonmen of Ireland" (on IRRCinnamond01)
NOTES [56 words]: Supporting the Orange position is "beating the Orange drum"; taking the Orange drum then has figurative as well as literal meaning.
I was helped through Cinnamond's text by Lew Becker and John Moulden. The description is based on John Moulden's transcription from IRRCinnamond02 included in the Traditional Ballad Index Supplement. - BS
File: RcYRiMoI

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