The Irish fought for independence for far too many years. There were multiple uprisings. It was very much an asymmetric war.
This song spoke to me earlier this week when thinking of how the left thinks and acts. I wish I had the skills to set new lyrics to this tune to describe how the murder of Charlie is the start of major change.
The version I have is from “Wolfe Tones”, quite a nice band. Another interesting song of theirs is “Rock on Rockall” which prompted me to find out just what the heck Rockall is. (Look it up.)
For a somewhat different flavor of Irish songs there’s Mary O’Hara. I like her “Red Fox” which is half English, half Gaelic. Gaelic is fun to listen to. It’s also rather mindbending to try to match the sound with the spelling…
Courtesy of Allyson Szabo and Grok, I present “Ye Libs and Wokes”:
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Chorus:
Oh, come out ye libs and wokes,
Come out and fight me like a bloke,
Show your profs how you won debates up in Harvard,
Tell them how Charlie Kirk made you run like hell away,
From the freedom loving people of America.
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I was raised in a Wheeling school where the blue drums do beat,
And the loving leftist feet they tramped all over us,
And each and every night when me Da would come home tight,
He’d invite the neighbors outside with this chorus:
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CHORUS
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Come let us hear you tell
How you silenced Charlie well,
When you thought him truly canceled and refuted,
Where are the shouts and jeers
That you bravely let us hear
When our campus heroes of youth were persecuted.
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CHORUS
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Come tell us how you slew
Those young conservatives two by two,
Like the students they had signs and facts and arrows,
How you bravely shut them down
With your safe spaces all around,
And you frightened those young patriots to their marrow.
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CHORUS
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The day is coming fast
And the time is here at last,
When each leftist shill will be cast aside before us,
And if there be a need
We will all sing, “Godspeed!”
And yell, “I am Charlie!” in chorus.
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CHORUS
One of my favorite versions of this tune is by a local Irish-style punk band from my home-state. The band is (was) called Amadan (Gaelic for “fool” or “idiot”), and several of their songs are on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube, but their rendition of “Black and Tans” is not available pretty much anywhere online. I only have it on compact disc (CD — kids, ask your parents).
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I would post it up myself in MP3 format, but it would probably violate a bunch of copyright and intellectual property laws.