Irish Lingo & Million Dollar Baby

[Wilson Gray]

On Feb 28, 2005, at 5:23 PM, paulzjoh wrote:

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> Don't forget:
> Who put the overalls in Mrs Murphy's  chowder.
> The wearing of the green

A fellow G.I. and former high-school classmate used to sing the "The
Wearing ..." under his breath as we marched off to a day's training. I
really enjoyed the pun. (During basic infantry training, you gotta grab
all the gusto you can.) As some will recall, the Army wore green and
not camo, back in the day.

-Wilson Gray

> Johnson's motorcar.
> Irish Soldier Boy
> Wrap the green flag around me
> Rifles of the I.R.A.
> Black and Tans
> The Rebel Jesus
> Johnnie I hardly knew you
> And one my grandfather used to sing, forgotten the title but it was
> about the English being the first Egyptians
> Lines like "it must have been the British that built the pyramids
> because the Irish were the only ones strong enough to lift the bricks'
> and "it must have been the Irish that swam the river Nile, because
> they're the only ones that could fight the crocodile"
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