Name: The Orange and the Green
Duration: P00H02M01S
Description: To this day, there are disagreements centering around religion in the north of Ireland. This song, The Orange and the Green, is about the possible outcome of a mixed marriage. (In this context, a mixed marriage is a Protestant and a Catholic.) It’s also one of only two songs I’ve run across that dare to poke fun at the situation.

The Orange and the Green

from Johnny Jump Up by DruidSong

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To this day, there are disagreements centering around religion in the north of Ireland. This song, The Orange and the Green, is about the possible outcome of a mixed marriage. (In this context, a mixed marriage is a Protestant and a Catholic.) It’s also one of only two songs I’ve run across that dare to poke fun at the situation.

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Oh, it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen!
Me father, he was orange, and me mother, she was green.

Me father was an Ulster man, broad Protestant was he.
Me mother was a Catholic girl. from County Cork was she.
They were married in two churches, lived happily enough
Until the day that I was born, then things got rather rough.
Baptized by Father Riley, I was rushed away by car
To be made a little Orange man, me father’s shining star
I was christened David Anthony, but still in spite of that
To me father, I was William, while me mother called me Pat.

With mother every Sunday, to mass I’d proudly stroll.
Then after that the Orange lodge would try to save my soul.
While both sides tried to claim me, but I was smart because
I’d play the flute or play the harp, depending where I was.
One day me mass relations came ‘round to visit me
Just as my father’s kinfolk were all sittin’ down to tea.
We tried to smooth things over, but they all began to fight.
And me, being strictly neutral, I bashed everyone in sight.

My patents never could agree about my kind of school.
My learning was all done at home, that’s why I’m such a fool.
They’ve both passed on, God rest them, but left me caught between
This awful colour problem of the Orange and the Green.

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from Johnny Jump Up, released June 23, 2009

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