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***The Auld Triangle - B. Behan
from the album "Red Roses For Me"
The Auld Triangle - as perfomed by The Pogues
THE AULD TRIANGLE, from Red Roses For Me
G
A hungry feeling
G
Came o'er me stealing
C Em
And the mice were squeeling
Am C
In my prison cell
G
And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle
C Em D G
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Oh! To start the morning
The warden bawling
"Get up out of bed, you! And Clean out your cell!"
And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Oh! the screw was peeping
And the loike was sleeping
As he lay weeping
For his girl Sal
And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
On a fine Spring evening
The loike lay dreaming
And the sea-gulls were wheeling
High above the wall
And that auld triangle went jingle-jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
Oh! the wind was sighing
And the day was dying
As the loike lay crying
In his prison cell
And that auld triangle went jingle-bloody-jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
In the women's prison
There are seventy women
And I wish it was with them
That I did dwell
Then that auld triangle could go jingle-jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
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Chris Average |
#1 by Chris H... at Jun 16, 1984 at 5:18 AM EST |
| The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem did a nice version too. (I've heard that Tom Clancy originally caught the immigrant boat to the US because he had some friends who had been shooting sheriffs out of season...) | |
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Tommy Wanna Be |
#2 by Tommy Tang at Jan 22, 2005 at 11:20 PM EST |
| This was actually written by Brendan Behan, the Pogues did a great job with it. It's about being in jail, obviously, but in Behan's case he was in jail because he was in the IRA. | |