{"id":1311,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/the-ballad-of-ronnies-mare"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"the-ballad-of-ronnies-mare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/the-ballad-of-ronnies-mare\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BALLAD OF RONNIE’S MARE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can sing of all your sport’n hero’s like Mr. McGrath and the rest
\nBut there’s a horse in the county of Wicklow that’s beaten all of the best
\nThe slowest humper, the lowest jumper and great for a stroll ’round the park<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nThe servant lasses, the upper classes and daughters of millionaires
\nThey all appear from far and near for a ride on Ronnie’s mare
\nFor a ride on Ronnie Drew’s mare<\/p>\n

In Greystone’s town on a Sunday morning a crowd will always appear
\nTo catch a glimpse of the famous mare they call the horse of the year
\nShe’s the best at racin’, but sees no disgracin’
\nPulling a big old milk cart
\nChorus<\/p>\n

In the Barnaby bar boys talked of the horse show and they said she ought to be showed
\nShe was tutored and trained by the two Evans boys on the grass by the side of the road
\nThough she won up in Dublin without any troublin’,
\nNext day she was back in the cart
\nChorus<\/p>\n

Joe Sweeny the punter suggested one day they should enter her in for a race
\nSo all was arranged, Billy Fox would be jockey and New Castle would be the place
\nBut the boys all agreed it, even if she succeeded,
\nShe’d go back to deliverin’ milk
\nChorus<\/p>\n

Well, the boys where there to lay out their ready’s and cheer the horse past the post
\nBut when Fox had a look at the competition, he turned as white as a ghost
\nWe’ll have some hassle to beat Willy Castle
\nSays Ronnie “for jeez sake!”
\nChorus<\/p>\n

The race it was tough, but the mare she was flyin’ they knew that she couldn’t loose
\nBut in the midst of the celebrations arrived some tragic news
\nIn her finest hour all the milk had gone sour
\nSo now she was out of a job
\nChorus<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can sing of all your sport’n hero’s like Mr. McGrath and the rest But there’s a horse in the county of Wicklow that’s beaten all of the best The slowes<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[28,27],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","tag-beer-belly-band","tag-irish-lyrics"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"beerbellycollection","author_link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/author\/beerbellycollection\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"You can sing of all your sport'n hero's like Mr. McGrath and the rest But there's a horse in the county of Wicklow that's beaten all of the best The slowes","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}