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| SLG |
Celebrity Rangers fan;)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52-Ds3vEttM |
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| Congal |
 Good 'un. Wonder does he know 'The Sash' The Arab orange lodge is a good 'un too. You ever hear it?
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| SLG |
Glad you liked it Congal  . Not heard the Arab Orange Lodge... How does it go?
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| Congal |
Lost my password SLG, so was missing for a wee while  Anyway I'm back with this wee poem. Its a bit of a laugh.... we can git a bit to serious sometimes.
As you can see it was written a few years back. Paddy Devlin and Gerry Fitt both founder members of the SDLP have both passed away. The Heysham boat gets a mention,so you can tell its set in a different time. Sandy Row....as you might know,is a loyalist area. A loyal band of Orangemen from Ulster’s lovely land, They could not march upon the twelfth – processions were all banned, So they flew off to the Middle East this dreadful law to dodge, And they founded in Jerusalem the Arab Orange Lodge. Big Ali Bey who charmed the snakes he was the first recruit, John James McKeag from Portglenone taught him to play the flute, And as the oul’ pied piper was once followed by the rats, There followed Ali from the lodge ten snakes in bowler hats. They made a martial picture as they marched along the shore, It stirred the blood when Ali played “The fez my father wore”, And Yussef Ben Mohammed hit the ‘Lambeg’ such a bash, He scared the living daylights from a camel in a sash. Now the movement spread both far& wide – there were lodges by the score, The ‘Jerusalem Purple Heroes’ was the first of many more, The ‘Loyal Sons of Djeddah’ and the ‘The Mecca Shining Star’, And the ‘Rising Sons of Jericho’ who came by motor car. The banners too were wonderful and some would make you smile, King Billy on his camel as he splashed across the Nile, But the Tyre and Sidon Temperance had the best one of them all, For they had a lovely picture of Damascus Orange Hall. The Apprentice Boys of Amman marched beneath the blazing sun, The Royal Black Preceptory were Negro’s every one, And lodges came from Egypt, from the Abu Simbel Falls, And they shouted ‘No Surrender’ and ‘We’ll guard old Cairo’s walls’. But when the ban was lifted and the lodges marched at last, The Arabs all decided to march right through Belfast, And they caused a lot of trouble before they got afloat, For they could not get their camels n the bloody Heysham boat. Now camels choked up Liverpool and camels blocked Stranraer, And the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi came in a bloody great big car, But the ‘Easter Magic’ LOL they worked a crafty move, They used their magic carpets and flew in to Aldergrove. They came up to Castle Junction where once stood the wee kiosk, They dug up Royal Avenue to build a giant Mosque, And Devlin says to Gerry Fitt, ‘I think we’d better go, There’s half a million camels coming down from Sandy Row’ The speeches at the ‘field’ that day were really something new, For some were made in Arabic and some were in Hebrew, But just as Colonel Gaddafi got up to sing ‘The Queen’, I woke up in my bed at home and found it was a dream.
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| SLG |
Well most of the Ulster references go over my head I'm afraid. | ||
| Congal |
Aye I think it would be better if you knew the areas well. And of course the Ulster sense of humour may be different too. James Young and all that.
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