Happy St.Patrick's Day

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Funny, Alex! :biggrin1:

I don't drink Jeff, so I have no plans
to "celebrate".

This day actually started out as a
feast day which means originally
people used to go to Mass...
 

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You're a rebel, Ride...and by the way,
if some is a "ride" in Ireland, 'tis a good
thing! :wink:

[FONT=Times New Roman,Times][SIZE=+3]Wearing of the Green[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]
Dion Boucicault
(1820-1890)[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]A song from the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
The melody is sometimes heard with the words
"Rising of the Moon.

"[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Melody:
Wearing of the
Green

[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman,Times][SIZE=+1]Oh! Paddy, dear, and did you hear
The news that's going round,
The shamrock is forbid by law
To grow on Irish ground.
Saint Patrick's Day no more we'll keep
His color can't be seen
For there's a bloody law agin'
The wearing of the green.
I met with Napper Tandy
And he took me by the hand
And he said "How's poor old Ireland?
And how does she stand?"
She's the most distressful country
That ever you have seen,
They're hanging men and women there
For wearing of the green. Then since the color we must wear
Is England's cruel red
Sure Ireland's sons will n'er forget
The blood that they have shed.
You may take the shamrock from your hat
And cast it on the sod,
But 'twill take root and flourish still
Tho' underfoot 'tis trod.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times][SIZE=+1]When the law can stop the blades of grass
From growing as they grow,
And when the leaves in summer time
Their verdure dare not show,
Then I will change the color
I wear in my caubeen,
But till that day I'll stick for aye
To wearing of the green. But if at last our color should
Be torn from Ireland's heart,
Her sons with shame and sorrow
From the dear old sod will part.
I've heard a whisper of a country
That lives far beyond the say,
Where rich and poor stand equal
In the light of freedom's day. Oh, Erin! Must we lave you,
Driven by the tyrant's hand?
Must we ask a mother's welcome
From a strange but happy land?
Where the cruel cross of England's thralldom
Never shall be seen
And where in peace we'll live and die
A-wearing of the green.[/SIZE][/FONT]
 

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Happy Paddy's Day from N Ireland! I'm sitting here with a pint of Guinness (the real stuff, not that crap we send to America ;)) and raising it to toast my friends at LPSG!
 

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This place is about a block from where I live, and to say that they've been a little busy today would be a considerable understatement ---

http://dublinerheidelberg.com/

We also have an Irish linen shop and an Irish souvenir store in the city centre, prompting the question as to whether this is really Germany at all. :rolleyes: