2:50
single, 1997?
Written by Kathleen Largey
This song, about which there is very little information on the internet, is also known as "I love Old Ireland." It's usually grouped with Irish rebel songs, a genre I grew up absorbing, but it's really more of an Irish patriotic anthem (it lacks both accounts of desperate rebel bravado and vituperation for the English). The narrator boldly proclaims that he stands with country, even if friends and foes mock him for it. Then comes the boast, "There's not an Irishman today would ever wish to roam / Into a foreign land to live, if he could live at home." Maybe, but around 1900-1930 there were more than a few takers for ould Amerikay.
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