I have another song in mind. And like the European Constitution it got a bit of a re-write.

Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them
directly ... All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.

Valery Giscard d'Estaing, former Chairman of the Convention which drew up the EU
Constitution (Le Monde, 14 June 2007)

The proposals (in the original constitutional treaty) have simply been dispersed through the old treaties in the
form of amendments … to head off any threat of referenda by avoiding any form of constitutional vocabulary.

Valery Giscard d'Estaing, The Independent, London, 30 October 2007

Our Response.

Well Sometimes We need to think , For Ourselves, And we Look Across The Water.

And I Think Of All The Things, Of What You're Doing, And in my head I see the future

Well Since I Come Home, We're not accepting any less, And our vote was free and fair, And The peoples deserve no less.

Oh Won't You Come On Over, Stop Making A Fool Out Of Me, Why Dont You Come On Over, Valery.

Valery
Valery
Valery

We Once had To Go To Jail, Establish our own Dail, Did You think we don't remember

We fought the Black 'n' Tan, You think you're the Right Man, Who'll Fix It For You?

Are You doing circumlocution, Tweak the constitution, And you a freemason.

Well we won't buy that line, You Were Dodgy All The Time, Are You Still Dizzy?

Well Since I Come Home, We're not accepting any less, And our vote was free and fair, And The peoples deserve no less.

Oh Wont You Come On Over, Stop Making A Fool Out Of Me, Oh Why Don't You Come On Over, Valery.

Valery
Valery
Valery

Great re-write Henry. Now we just got to get Amy Winehouse and Shane McGowan to record this version.

Great Song David.

"You Were Dodgy All The Time"

LOL...nice one Henry

They tried to make us vote for Lisbon we said NO! NO! NO!

What a day!

David,

"Give Ireland Back to the Irish" was perhaps more appropriate in the circumstances.

Incidentally, you can't be too happy with the fact that the only peeps down south who've consistently campaigned against membership of Europe are Sinn Féin :0)

Let us hope the NO voters are sitting in their pubs and wine bars SMOKING their head off in celebration, while the EU quakers & shakers are huddled outside in the rain.

Slante!

Ghastly song :(

I love this song! And the singers. This song was the reason that I started reading ATW!

I definitely must have an Irish rover - or 2 - or 5 - somewhere in my past.

Almost forgot -- congratulations on a tremendous outcome!

I could take it or leave it, but my little boy seems to love it. He asked me to turn it up and proceeded to dance like an Appalachian hillbilly.

Do you ever square dance, Daphne? Corny, I know. But I'm a square dance caller for the little kids in 2nd - 3rd grade. I pretend I'm from Texas. (!) and the music/beat is very similar to this song.

Patty: Do you call "Allemande Left" or are you afraid that would be viewed as encouraging a leftist movement?

Mahons: hahaha. You prob. would have a great future as a caller, with your quick verbal wit. (if you weren't such a "grande latte, nonfat, no whipped" kind of guy.

Now, Gents!

Left foot up and right foot down.
Swing your lady round and round.

I love my life,
And I love my baby.

I love my biscuits,
Soaked in gravy.

(That's as good as I get. But it works. )

Patty: I drink coffee, two cups a day. I leave grande lattes to Los Angles Cowgirls.

No square dancing for me Patty. A little two-stepping and lots of salsa though.

"and the music/beat is very similar to this song. "

An irish american friend of mine tells me there is a clear organic line between what we now call Irish folk music and a lot of traditional american music.

Does anyone know of anything written about it?

>>Does anyone know of anything written about it?<<

It's well researched, Andy. Apparently, the line is through Irish-Scots emigration to the Appalachian region in the 18th C. The music went through a few mutations over several decades of isolation there, before emerging as a form of bluegrass.

I read a bit about it in some Dylan biography.

Actually, many of the early Dylan songs were in fact of Scots-Irish origin (Pretty Peggy-O, Barbara Allen, and many more) A Hard Rain's a-gonna Fall is based on Lord Randall (Scots), later With God on Our Side is taken - in melody, many of the lyrics and general theme - from the Irish ballad The Patriot Game by Domnic Behan..

Noel,

"from the Irish ballad The Patriot Game by Domnic Behan.."

And Dominic's brother Brendan wrote 'The Captains & The Kings', which was covered by Phil Chevron (who used to be in the Pogues) and was produced by Elvis Costello (who is of course the King of America and married a Pogue)!

(And if anybody knows where I can get a copy of that recording I would love to know.)

Frank,
For the moment, make do with Ronnie Drew's version

Frank,

I just downloaded it from here