For folk-music fans, the newest spectator sport is listening to a quartet of leather-lunged Irishmen crowding around a microphone and taking a few melodious cracks at the English. The song, chances are, will be God Bless England:
Oh, Irishmen, forget the past And think of the day that is coming fast, When we shall all be civilized, Neat and clean, and well-advised, Oh, won't Mother England be surprised, Whack fol the diddle lol the dido day.
The four singers are known as "The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem," and two of the Clancys come by...
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