Man from the Daily Mail - The Irish Brigade

Oh Ireland is a very funny place sir

Its a strange and troubled land

And the Irish are a very funny race sir

Every womans a Cumann na mBan

Every doggies got a tri-coloured ribbon

Tied firmly to its tail

And it wouldn’t be suprising

If there’d be another rising

Said the man from the Daily Mail

Oh every bird upon my word

Singing Yo Ho- Im A Provo!

Every hen in Jail is laying hand grenades

Over there sir, i do declare sir!

And every old cock in the farmyard

Stock singing triumph to Sinn Fein

And it wouldn’t be surpising

If there’d be another rising

Said the man from the Daily Mail

Oh the other day i travelled down from Claire sir

I spied an old boreen

Such a bunch of busy gooses there

Dressed in orange, white and green

They were marching to the German Goose step

And whistling Grann na bheal

And every time i showed up

They would shoot me as a yeoman

Said the man from the Daily Mail

Oh every bird upon my word

Singing Yo Ho- Im A Provo!

Every hen in Jail is laying hand grenades

Over there sir, i do declare sir!

And every old cock in the farmyard

Stock singing triumph to Sinn Fein

And it wouldn’t be surpising

If there’d be another rising

Said the man from the Daily Mail

Oh the whole place is seething with sedition

Its Sinn Fein through and through

All the boys are joining local units

And the passwords Sinn Fein too

Well The IRA just sent me

A timebomb in the mail

And im shaking in my shoes

As im typing up the news

Said the man from the Daily Mail

Oh every bird upon my word

Singing Yo Ho- Im A Provo!

Every hen in Jail is laying hand grenades

Over there sir, i do declare sir!

And every old cock in the farmyard

Stock singing triumph to Sinn Fein

And it wouldn’t be surpising

If there’d be another rising

Said the man from the Daily Mail