{"id":1481,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/fenian-record-player-the"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"fenian-record-player-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/fenian-record-player-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenian Record Player, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wee Willie John McFadden was a loyal Ulster Prod<br \/>\nWho thought that Ian Paisley was one step down from God<br \/>\nHe scorned the little children, in the backstreets of Ardoyne<br \/>\nAnd he thought that history started with the Battle of the Boyne (repeat)<\/p>\n<p>One day he took the brick in his hands and dandered up the Falls<br \/>\nHe was singing \u2018Up the Rangers\u2019 and hummin\u2019 Derry\u2019s Walls<br \/>\nHe broke the big shop window to annoy the Pope of Rome<br \/>\nHe took the record player and then he started home (repeat)<\/p>\n<p>Next night they had a hooley at the local Orange Hall<br \/>\nWee Willie took his player to make music for the boys<br \/>\nHe chose a stack of records of a very loyal kind<br \/>\nBut when the music started he nearly lost his mind (repeat)<\/p>\n<p>This Fenian record player was a rebel to the core<br \/>\nIt played out songs the Orange Hall had never heard before<br \/>\nFor Golly\u2019s (?) Brae and Derry\u2019s Walls it didn\u2019t give a fig<br \/>\nIt speeded up God Save the Queen till it sounded like a jig (repeat)<\/p>\n<p>Well the boys were plain demented, to the ground Wee Will was thrown<br \/>\nThey kicked his ribs in one by one to the tune of Garryowen<br \/>\nThey threw him out the window to the song of Old Sinn Fein<br \/>\nThey kicked him all down Sandy Row to a Nation Once Again (repeat)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a moral to this story, what it is I cannot say<br \/>\nOh maybe its the ancient curse, crime it will not pay<br \/>\nIf you ask Wee Willie McFadden, he\u2019ll say \u201cyou\u2019re kind, you know\u201d (?)<br \/>\nIf you want to pinch a record player, do it up the Shankill Road (repeat)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wee Willie John McFadden was a loyal Ulster Prod Who thought that Ian Paisley was one step down from God He scorned the little children, in the 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