{"id":1963,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/willie-john-mcfadden"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"willie-john-mcfadden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/willie-john-mcfadden\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLIE JOHN McFADDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Wee Willie John McFadden was a loyal Orange prod,
\nWho thought that Ian Paisley was just one step down from God.
\nHe thought that they ate the children in the back woods of Ardoyne,
\nAnd he thought that history started with the battle of the Boyne.<\/p>\n

One day he took a brick in his hand and wandered up the Falls
\nMumblin’ up the rangers and hummin’ Derry’s walls
\nHe broke a big shop windy, to annoy the Pope of Rome,
\nThen he took a record player out and then he staggered home.<\/p>\n

That night they held a hooley, in the local Orange hall,
\nAnd Willie brought his player, to make music for the ball.
\nHe chose a stack of records, of a very loyal kind,
\nBut when the music started up, he nearly lost his mind.<\/p>\n

For this Fenian record player was a rebel to the core,
\nIt played the songs the Orange hall had never heard before
\nFor “Dolly’s Brae” and “Derry’s walls”, it didn’t give a fig,
\nAnd it speeded up “God save the Queen,” till it sounded like a jig.<\/p>\n

It played the “Woods of Upton” and “The Wearing of the Green”
\nSuch turmoil in an Orange hall has never yet been seen.
\nIt played “The Boys of Wexford” and “The Men of `98”
\nBut when it played “The Soldier’s Song” it sealed Wee Willie’s fate.<\/p>\n

For the boys went clean demented, to the ground Wee Will was thrown
\nAnd they kicked his ribs in one by one, to the tune of “Gary Owen”
\nThey through him out the windy, to a song of old Sinn Fein,
\nAnd they kicked him all down Sandy Road to “A Nation Once Again”<\/p>\n

This Fenian record player was heard no nevermore.
\nThey prodded it with deacon poles and threw it on the floor.
\nBut still it was not finished, `twas the strangest sight you’ve seen,
\nFor the flashed flying out of it were Orange, White and Green.<\/p>\n

Now Willie’s in the looney bin, as crazy as a coot.
\nHe sits there in his padded cell and tootles on his flute
\nBut when he tries to play “The Sash” he always gets it wrong.
\nHalfway through, he always finds he’s playing “The Soldiers Song”<\/p>\n

There’s a moral to this story. What it is I cannot say.
\nIt may be just the ancient one that crime will never pay.
\nBut if you ask Wee Will McFadden, he’ll say “Aw, Crimey Blows!
\nIf you want to pinch a record player, do it up the Shankhill Road.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wee Willie John McFadden was a loyal Orange prod, Who thought that Ian Paisley was just one step down from God. He thought that they ate the children in th<\/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-1963","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":"Wee Willie John McFadden was a loyal Orange prod, Who thought that Ian Paisley was just one step down from God. He thought that they ate the children in th","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","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=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}