An Irish Inauguration Song

Thanks Ali!

Inked by Dana at 1/20/2009

5 comments:

  1. AliJanuary 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM

    Please no-one be offended!

    here's the history:

    Moneygall is a small village in County Offaly , Ireland . It has a population of approximately 300 people, has a Roman Catholic church, five shops, a post office, a national school, a police station and two pubs.

    President-elect of the United States Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, emigrated from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19 in 1850 and eventually resettled in Tipton County , Indiana . Kearney 's father had been the village shoemaker, then a wealthy skilled trade.

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  2. AliJanuary 20, 2009 at 11:55 AM

    Oh, and at the risk of REALLY offending (please remember: I am a-political!) here's the words, in case you want to join in:

    O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
    There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

    You don't believe me, I hear you say
    But Barack's as Irish, as was JFK
    His granddaddy's daddy came from Moneygall
    A small Irish village, well known to you all

    Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama
    There's no one as Irish As Barack O'Bama

    He's as Irish as bacon and cabbage and stew
    He's Hawaiian he's Kenyan American too
    He’s in the White House, he took his chance
    Now let’s see Barack do Riverdance

    Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama
    There's no one as Irish As Barack O'Bama

    From Kerry and Cork to old Donegal
    Let’s hear it for Barack from old Moneygall
    From the lakes of Killarney to old Connemara
    There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama

    O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
    There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama
    From the old Blarney Stone to the great Hill of Tara
    There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

    2008 the White House is green, their cheering in Mayo and in Skibereen.
    The Irish in Kenya, and in Yokahama,
    Are cheering for President Barack O’Bama

    O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
    There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama

    The Hockey Mom's gone, and so is McCain
    They are cheering in Texas and in Borrisokane,

    In Moneygall town, the greatest of drama, for our famous president Barack O'Bama

    Toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a loo, toor a lama
    There's no one as Irish As Barack O'Bama

    The great Stephen Neill, a great man of God,
    He proved that Barack was from the Auld Sod
    They came by bus and they came by car, to celebrate Barack in Ollie Hayes’s Bar

    O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
    There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama.

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  3. DanaJanuary 20, 2009 at 12:49 PM

    Ali,
    No one need be (and no one should be!) offended, it's an awesome song! And thanks for the history behind it...

    I told you all Americans are Irish or wish they were.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM

    Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys? Is that seriously their name? I'm mentally drifting to my childhood reading and Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys.

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  5. CosmoJanuary 22, 2009 at 6:00 PM

    Brilliant! (and a darn sight better than the poem used at the inauguration...IMO)

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