The Orange and the Green - Seth Staton Watkins

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Anthony Murphy
[00:01.533]Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
[00:05.513]My father he was orange and my mother she was green
[00:12.176]Oh my father was an Ulsterman, proud Protestant was he
[00:16.169]My mother was a Catholic girl, from County Cork was she
[00:19.627]They were married in two churches, lived happily enough
[00:23.341]Until the day that I was born and things got rather tough
[00:26.801]Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
[00:31.058]My father he was orange and my mother she was green
[00:37.683]Baptised by father Reilly, I was rushed away by car
[00:41.427]To be made a little orangeman, my father's shining star
[00:45.144]I was christened David Anthony, but still in spite of that
[00:48.873]To my father I was William while my mother called me Pat
[00:52.615]Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
[00:56.341]My father he was orange and my mother she was green
[01:01.404]With mother every Sunday to mass I'd proudly stroll
[01:05.107]Then after that the orange lads would try to save my soul
[01:08.842]For both sides tried to claim me, but I was smart because
[01:12.577]I played the flute or played the harp, depending where I was
[01:16.296]Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
[01:20.014]My father he was orange and my mother she was green
[01:25.063]When I sing them old rebel songs,It is to my mother’s joy
[01:28.803]My father would leap up and shout,look here William my boy
[01:32.551]That quite enough of that lad,he’d then loss me a coin
[01:36.269]And have me sing The Orange Flute,and the heroes of the Boyne
[01:39.992]Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
[01:43.715]My father he was orange and my mother she was green
[01:50.645]One day my ma's relations came round to visit me
[01:54.379]Just as my father's kinfolk were all sittin' down to tea
[01:58.092]We tried to smooth things over, but they all began to fight
[02:01.825]And me being strictly neutral, I bashed everyone in sight
[02:05.528]Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
[02:09.253]My father he was orange and my mother she was green
[02:14.324]Now my parents never could agree about my type of school
[02:17.809]My learning was all done at home, that's why I'm such a fool
[02:21.802]They both passed on, god rest them, but left me caught between
[02:25.521]That awful color problem of the orange and the green
[02:29.230]Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
[02:33.216]My father he was orange and my mother she was green
[02:36.687]Oh it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen
[02:40.672]My father he was orange and my mother she was green