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Catch22
26-10-2017, 12:48 PM
In the Hun melt down thread somebody linked to the Rangers Bear SD is selling called Timmy. Prompted a quick google to discover why Celtic are known as the tims. Turns out it some to do with Tim Malloy. Who or what Tim Mallory was appears to be subject of glasgow urban myth. However the We'll follow the boys, the Edinburgh hibees song I'm sure we sung the Tim Malloys as well?

Mick O'Rourke
26-10-2017, 01:09 PM
In the Hun melt down thread somebody linked to the Rangers Bear SD is selling called Timmy. Prompted a quick google to discover why Celtic are known as the tims. Turns out it some to do with Tim Malloy. Who or what Tim Mallory was appears to be subject of glasgow urban myth. However the We'll follow the boys, the Edinburgh hibees song I'm sure we sung the Tim Malloys as well?
Tim Malloy is /was a generic name for Irish Catholic immigrants to these shores
I remember the song being sung at The Holy Ground.
It included the lines

The Edinburgh Hibees
The Tim Malloys
For we wont be mastered by no O****e B*****ds
We'll keep the Green flag flying high

Sometimes quickly followed by...

"So bring on the Hearts, the Celts and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona,Real Madrid
They will make there gallant bid (sometimes this line was substituted with a reference to the Queen)
But we're out to show the world what we can do"

Another one of the time

Whose this team they call the Hibees
Whose this team we all adore
They are the Boys in Emerald Green
they're the best you've even seen
And we're out to show the world what we can do.


I am now recalling loads of songs from back then
(that haven't been sung for decades)
Just like now, we had a fuller song book back then than the not so noisy neighbours !


Am sure some of the Hibernian veterans on here will have a recall of a favourite Hibernian song

Appropriate or otherwise!:wink:



Happy Hibernian Childhood Days !!!

Joe6-2
26-10-2017, 01:20 PM
Tim Malloy is /was a generic name for Irish Catholic immigrants to these shores
I remember the song being sung at The Holy Ground.
It included the lines

The Edinburgh Hibees
The Tim Malloys
For we wont be mastered by no O****e B*****ds
We'll keep the Green flag flying high

Sometimes quickly followed by...

"So bring on the Hearts, the Celts and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona,Real Madrid
They will make there gallant bid (sometimes this line was substituted with a reference to the Queen)
But we're out to show the world what we can do"

Happy Hibernian Childhood Days !!!

Remember it well

JeMeSouviens
26-10-2017, 01:20 PM
Tim Malloy is /was a generic name for Irish Catholic immigrants to these shores
I remember the song being sung at The Holy Ground.
It included the lines

The Edinburgh Hibees
The Tim Malloys
For we wont be mastered by no O****e B*****ds
We'll keep the Green flag flying high

Sometimes quickly followed by...

"So bring on the Hearts, the Celts and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona,Real Madrid
They will make there gallant bid (sometimes this line was substituted with a reference to the Queen)
But we're out to show the world what we can do"

Happy Hibernian Childhood Days !!!

Haven't heard that for a while. Iirc Celtic and Old Rangers both had their own versions of that song. Since we beat both Barca and Madrid in the 60s, I wonder if ours was the original?

Wembley67
26-10-2017, 01:21 PM
Never ever ever heard the gallant bid line being sung 😁

Waxy
26-10-2017, 01:23 PM
Forever and ever.

Pretty Boy
26-10-2017, 01:23 PM
Tim Malloy is /was a generic name for Irish Catholic immigrants to these shores
I remember the song being sung at The Holy Ground.
It included the lines

The Edinburgh Hibees
The Tim Malloys
For we wont be mastered by no O****e B*****ds
We'll keep the Green flag flying high

Sometimes quickly followed by...

"So bring on the Hearts, the Celts and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona,Real Madrid
They will make there gallant bid (sometimes this line was substituted with a reference to the Queen)
But we're out to show the world what we can do"

Happy Hibernian Childhood Days !!!

Still gets an airing in pubs before the odd game, usually a final or similar. Understandable why it fell off the playlist at games.

Sylar
26-10-2017, 01:23 PM
Tim Malloy is /was a generic name for Irish Catholic immigrants to these shores
I remember the song being sung at The Holy Ground.
It included the lines

The Edinburgh Hibees
The Tim Malloys
For we wont be mastered by no O****e B*****ds
We'll keep the Green flag flying high

Sometimes quickly followed by...

"So bring on the Hearts, the Celts and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona,Real Madrid
They will make there gallant bid (sometimes this line was substituted with a reference to the Queen)
But we're out to show the world what we can do"

Happy Hibernian Childhood Days !!!

Thankfully we've evolved and left this historic bigotry behind.

Shame other parts of Scottish football is slow to do the same.

Mick O'Rourke
26-10-2017, 01:36 PM
Thankfully we've evolved and left this historic bigotry behind.

Shame other parts of Scottish football is slow to do the same.

Shame many parts of Scottish society and the establishment has been slow (not just football)

What happened in the 50s and 60s(my youth days) was seen as acceptable.
I and my brothers suffered many incidents of religious abuse/attacks because of the schools we attended.

Having said that, the thread is about historical football songs,whatever the content of the songs of those times.
Those were the days of symbols on jam jars that were "acceptable"

Mick O'Rourke
26-10-2017, 01:43 PM
Never ever ever heard the gallant bid line being sung 😁



Only the nice Holy Cross and Scotus Academy boys wouldn't sing the alternative line :wink:

Mick O'Rourke
26-10-2017, 01:49 PM
Haven't heard that for a while. Iirc Celtic and Old Rangers both had their own versions of that song. Since we beat both Barca and Madrid in the 60s, I wonder if ours was the original?
Hibernian were the 1st Club in the UK to beat both the Spanish Giants.

Original it most certainly was:thumbsup:

lord bunberry
26-10-2017, 01:50 PM
Thankfully we've evolved and left this historic bigotry behind.

Shame other parts of Scottish football is slow to do the same.

I wish we could come up with another version though as I liked that song.

Joe6-2
26-10-2017, 01:51 PM
Only the nice Holy Cross and Scotus Academy boys wouldn't sing the alternative line :wink:

Ha ha, as an ex Holy Cross boy, I concur

Mick O'Rourke
26-10-2017, 01:51 PM
I wish we could come up with another version though as I liked that song.
Substitute one word in it with the word Zombie :greengrin

Mick O'Rourke
26-10-2017, 01:53 PM
Ha ha, as an ex Holy Cross boy, I concur

Now now !
i saw saw some of you at the back of the Cave singing the words (quietly)

Joe6-2
26-10-2017, 01:55 PM
Now now !
i saw saw some of you at the back of the Cave singing the words (quietly)

😂😂😂😂😂

leith lynx
26-10-2017, 01:56 PM
Substitute one word in it with the word Zombie :greengrin

Remember the old Irish song The Wild Rover being popular a long long time ago..

lyonhibs
26-10-2017, 02:02 PM
Was certainly on the playlist a few years ago in the Roseburn (reference to The Queen included). That was the thick end of a decade ago so maybe the dafties that were still singing that guff have grown up

wearethehibs
26-10-2017, 02:35 PM
Never ever ever heard the gallant bid line being sung 😁

My old man told me it was..... "dinky donkey dankey dids". When I was a bairn haha

Tom Hart RIP
26-10-2017, 03:20 PM
Forever and ever.

We'll follow the boys

J-C
26-10-2017, 03:28 PM
Tim Malloy is /was a generic name for Irish Catholic immigrants to these shores
I remember the song being sung at The Holy Ground.
It included the lines

The Edinburgh Hibees
The Tim Malloys
For we wont be mastered by no O****e B*****ds
We'll keep the Green flag flying high

Sometimes quickly followed by...

"So bring on the Hearts, the Celts and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona,Real Madrid
They will make there gallant bid (sometimes this line was substituted with a reference to the Queen)
But we're out to show the world what we can do"

Another one of the time

Whose this team they call the Hibees
Whose this team we all adore
They are the Boys in Emerald Green
they're the best you've even seen
And we're out to show the world what we can do.


I am now recalling loads of songs from back then
(that haven't been sung for decades)
Just like now, we had a fuller song book back then than the not so noisy neighbours !


Am sure some of the Hibernian veterans on here will have a recall of a favourite Hibernian song

Appropriate or otherwise!:wink:



Happy Hibernian Childhood Days !!!

No heard that sung in many a year at ER, not PC anymore.

Mick O'Rourke
26-10-2017, 03:45 PM
No heard that sung in many a year at ER, not PC anymore.


PC is not something they do at Ibrox
In fact,they just sacked him!

Sir David Gray
26-10-2017, 05:08 PM
Tim Malloy is /was a generic name for Irish Catholic immigrants to these shores
I remember the song being sung at The Holy Ground.
It included the lines

The Edinburgh Hibees
The Tim Malloys
For we wont be mastered by no O****e B*****ds
We'll keep the Green flag flying high

Sometimes quickly followed by...

"So bring on the Hearts, the Celts and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona,Real Madrid
They will make there gallant bid (sometimes this line was substituted with a reference to the Queen)
But we're out to show the world what we can do"

Another one of the time

Whose this team they call the Hibees
Whose this team we all adore
They are the Boys in Emerald Green
they're the best you've even seen
And we're out to show the world what we can do.


I am now recalling loads of songs from back then
(that haven't been sung for decades)
Just like now, we had a fuller song book back then than the not so noisy neighbours !


Am sure some of the Hibernian veterans on here will have a recall of a favourite Hibernian song

Appropriate or otherwise!:wink:



Happy Hibernian Childhood Days !!!

Thank god that pish has by and large been rejected by the majority of our support.

HUTCHYHIBBY
26-10-2017, 05:15 PM
I'd like to echo the sentiments of PB & SDG.

Kato
26-10-2017, 05:42 PM
"Tim Malloys" is rhyming slang for"The Bhoys", a nickname used by Hibs, the press when referring to Hibs and Hibs fans up until Celtc appropriated anything Irish sounding in the dictionary and claimed it as
theirs exclusively.

Mick O'Rourke
26-10-2017, 06:38 PM
Thank god that pish has by and large been rejected by the majority of our support.


Do you mean one/two lines in the examples of past songs i mentioned?
Or reference to our roots in general?

I did not think this was going to turn into a debate.
Many Hibernians i know still sing Irish songs.I do occassionally !
They are not sectarian or bigoted.
Albeit you do not hear them in the ground these days

The OP asked for a reminder of the words of the first song i cited
Reference to the past.
Thats all

Johnny Clash
26-10-2017, 08:06 PM
Do you mean one/two lines in the examples of past songs i mentioned?
Or reference to our roots in general?

I did not think this was going to turn into a debate.
Many Hibernians i know still sing Irish songs.I do occassionally !
They are not sectarian or bigoted.
Albeit you do not hear them in the ground these days

The OP asked for a reminder of the words of the first song i cited
Reference to the past.
Thats all

Spot on . As Bob Marley sang:

“If you know your history
Then you would know where you coming from
Then you wouldn't have to ask me
Who the heck do I think I am”


I think we have one of the proudest histories in football.

Catch22
26-10-2017, 08:15 PM
I think it drifted away when they stuck the seats in the East Terracing. I think it's right that its gone and doesn't belong at Easter Road. But at least after twenty odd years I've learnt what the Tim Malloys means.

The Harp
26-10-2017, 08:25 PM
Do you mean one/two lines in the examples of past songs i mentioned?
Or reference to our roots in general?

I did not think this was going to turn into a debate.
Many Hibernians i know still sing Irish songs.I do occassionally !
They are not sectarian or bigoted.
Albeit you do not hear them in the ground these days

The OP asked for a reminder of the words of the first song i cited
Reference to the past.
Thats all

"Nae rebel songs up the back! If ye want rebel songs come up to my hoose."
Bernie G's regular plea on the St. Giles branch bus years ago.
Those songs stick in my head too Mikey, they always will. Looking back, it was all part of our growing up, and deep down we were innocent laddies.
Hope you're doing fine.

Sylar
26-10-2017, 08:29 PM
Do you mean one/two lines in the examples of past songs i mentioned?
Or reference to our roots in general?

I did not think this was going to turn into a debate.
Many Hibernians i know still sing Irish songs.I do occassionally !
They are not sectarian or bigoted.
Albeit you do not hear them in the ground these days

The OP asked for a reminder of the words of the first song i cited
Reference to the past.
Thats all

Certainly, when I posted earlier in the thread, my commentary was purely in reference to the overtly sectarian line.

I think maintaining an appreciation of heritage is a great thing, and something that is important to always remember. As a club, and a fanbase, we're pretty good at that I think. It's when you continually try and live your heritage where it becomes a problem, and that's where the lesser green and whites from the West fail.

We have proud Irish roots, but we're a proudly established, 21st century Scottish football club, proudly playing in our capital city.

The songs of yore might have been good to hear on the terraces once upon a yesteryear, but if that's the sort of lyrical content they hold, much like the tricolours and IRA songs, they're well shot of the modern environment.

Iggy Pope
26-10-2017, 08:30 PM
Do you mean one/two lines in the examples of past songs i mentioned?
Or reference to our roots in general?

I did not think this was going to turn into a debate.
Many Hibernians i know still sing Irish songs.I do occassionally !
They are not sectarian or bigoted.
Albeit you do not hear them in the ground these days

The OP asked for a reminder of the words of the first song i cited
Reference to the past.
Thats all

Agreed. Doubt some will ever acknowledge, understand, or want to.
Your surname alone and its obvious family tie to one of our greatest should nullify any suggestion of pish.
Green flag flying here.

Iggy Pope
26-10-2017, 08:34 PM
Thank god that pish has by and large been rejected by the majority of our support.

?god. Just a wee g for the big fellah?

Sir David Gray
26-10-2017, 08:36 PM
Do you mean one/two lines in the examples of past songs i mentioned?
Or reference to our roots in general?

I did not think this was going to turn into a debate.
Many Hibernians i know still sing Irish songs.I do occassionally !
They are not sectarian or bigoted.
Albeit you do not hear them in the ground these days

The OP asked for a reminder of the words of the first song i cited
Reference to the past.
Thats all

I was referring to the part about not being mastered by no orange ******* and the line that's mentioned about the Queen.

I'm proud when I honestly tell people that our support is, in the main, better than that and that we're genuinely nothing like Celtic when it comes to stuff like this.

By all means celebrate our roots, I've never had a problem with that and never will but songs like that should be left to the clowns at Parkhead.

I also want to make it clear that this isn't a dig at you. I fully understand that you were only answering the OP's question.

lapsedhibee
26-10-2017, 09:15 PM
"So bring on the Hearts, the Celts and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona,Real Madrid
They will make there gallant bid
But we're out to show the world what we can do"


I grew up thinking that the first line of that song was "Bring on Rangers after Celtic" and it's only now I see that it was probably "Bring on Rangers, Hearts and Celtic".

Every decade's a schoolday on hibs.net!

Johnny Clash
26-10-2017, 09:16 PM
I was referring to the part about not being mastered by no orange ******* and the line that's mentioned about the Queen.

I'm proud when I honestly tell people that our support is, in the main, better than that and that we're genuinely nothing like Celtic when it comes to stuff like this.

By all means celebrate our roots, I've never had a problem with that and never will but songs like that should be left to the clowns at Parkhead.

I also want to make it clear that this isn't a dig at you. I fully understand that you were only answering the OP's question.

I’m pretty sure the line about the queen was chucked in there coz ‘quid’ rhymed with ‘Madrid’. I don’t think it’s to be taken literally!!

ehf
26-10-2017, 09:21 PM
Was very young at the time but seem to remember a song being sung in the early 70s which went something like:

Toodle ooh, **** the Queen
Tootle ooh, **** the Queen
Tynecastle erupted in gold, white and green

Iggy Pope
26-10-2017, 09:28 PM
Was very young at the time but seem to remember a song being sung in the early 70s which went something like:

Toodle ooh, **** the Queen
Tootle ooh, **** the Queen
Tynecastle erupted in gold, white and green

It went like this...

Said Patrick to Michael. "Where is it today"?
"I'm off to Tynecastle to see the Hibs play"
Then up popped Joe Baker to score the first goal.
And Tynecastle erupted in Green White and,Gold...

Too-re-loo!
Too -re-loo'

Tynecastle erupted in Green White and Gold!

lapsedhibee
26-10-2017, 09:31 PM
It went like this...

Said Patrick to Michael. "Where is it today"?
"I'm off to Tynecastle to see the Hibs play"
Then up popped Joe Baker to score the first goal.
And Tynecastle erupted in Green White and,Gold...

Too-re-loo!
Too -re-loo'

Tynecastle erupted in Green White and Gold!

Before my time but that scans right in to the H-E-A, R-T-S tune. Was that the tune it was sung to?

Iggy Pope
26-10-2017, 09:34 PM
Before my time but that scans right in to the H-E-A, R-T-S tune. Was that the tune it was sung to?

Aye!

lapsedhibee
26-10-2017, 09:35 PM
Aye!
:aok:

Kato
26-10-2017, 09:48 PM
Before my time but that scans right in to the H-E-A, R-T-S tune. Was that the tune it was sung to?




...and that tune, which is used with many varying lyrics, is called "The Auld Orange Flute".

Johnny Clash
26-10-2017, 09:52 PM
...and that tune, which is used with many varying lyrics, is called "The Auld Orange Flute".

Prefer the Hibs lyrics for sure! 🇳🇬

Johnny Clash
26-10-2017, 10:13 PM
It went like this...

Said Patrick to Michael. "Where is it today"?
"I'm off to Tynecastle to see the Hibs play"
Then up popped Joe Baker to score the first goal.
And Tynecastle erupted in Green White and,Gold...

Too-re-loo!
Too -re-loo'

Tynecastle erupted in Green White and Gold!

Aye - the green, white and gold bit in homeage to our club’s roots and indeed the very flag our club used to fly over Easter Road!

Sir David Gray
26-10-2017, 10:15 PM
I’m pretty sure the line about the queen was chucked in there coz ‘quid’ rhymed with ‘Madrid’. I don’t think it’s to be taken literally!!

I'm sure it's not to be taken literally (that would be disturbing) but it's not something I want to hear at a Hibs game.

Nakedmanoncrack
26-10-2017, 10:20 PM
Certainly, when I posted earlier in the thread, my commentary was purely in reference to the overtly sectarian line.

I think maintaining an appreciation of heritage is a great thing, and something that is important to always remember. As a club, and a fanbase, we're pretty good at that I think. It's when you continually try and live your heritage where it becomes a problem, and that's where the lesser green and whites from the West fail.

We have proud Irish roots, but we're a proudly established, 21st century Scottish football club, proudly playing in our capital city.

The songs of yore might have been good to hear on the terraces once upon a yesteryear, but if that's the sort of lyrical content they hold, much like the tricolours and IRA songs, they're well shot of the modern environment.


Why are we well shot of tricolours?

NGP
26-10-2017, 10:50 PM
Re the first song on this thread, my dim brain can recall
'The Edinburgh Hibees, the Turbulloids' or something similar, avoiding the Celtc 'Malloy' reference.

CMurdoch
26-10-2017, 11:01 PM
Why are we well shot of tricolours?

Because we are a Scottish team playing in the Scottish League whose home is in Edinburgh, the Scottish Capital.

Nothing wrong with the tricolour but those who take it to the matches against Hearts & Rangers are usually at the wind up as were the Hearts bawbags flying the Union Jack at Easter Road on Tuesday night.

Johnny Clash
26-10-2017, 11:06 PM
Re the first song on this thread, my dim brain can recall
'The Edinburgh Hibees, the Turbulloids' or something similar, avoiding the Celtc 'Malloy' reference.

As explained in earlier posts - it’s not a Celtc reference though. No doubt their fans would like it to be but it’s not.

Johnny Clash
26-10-2017, 11:20 PM
Because we are a Scottish team playing in the Scottish League whose home is in Edinburgh, the Scottish Capital.

Nothing wrong with the tricolour but those who take it to the matches against Hearts & Rangers are usually at the wind up as were the Hearts bawbags flying the Union Jack at Easter Road on Tuesday night.

Everyone on this thread seems to be saying they are happy to recognise and celebrate our roots though. Hence the Irish tricolour, our ‘Erin Go Bragh’ club motto and our original Harp badge - which was a lift from the Society of United Irishmen. Hibs even helped start a club in East Lothisn named after the bold Robert Emmett. So it’s very much part of our history and identity without being a wind up .

I’m happy to see Irish tricolours, harps, Erin Go Bragh flags as well as green and white saltires. It’s all part of the rich tapestry that is Hibernian.

SideBurns
27-10-2017, 01:03 AM
Because we are a Scottish team playing in the Scottish League whose home is in Edinburgh, the Scottish Capital.

Nothing wrong with the tricolour but those who take it to the matches against Hearts & Rangers are usually at the wind up as were the Hearts bawbags flying the Union Jack at Easter Road on Tuesday night.

I could only conclude that anyone who gets wound up by the sight of the tricolour does so because of some irrational antipathy towards the Irish. Hibs fans shouldn't feel pressurised into pandering to the bigots in the Rangers & Hearts supports (in the case of the Jambos, this is very much a minority I should add).

My simple view on the singing is that Hibs are a fitba team, regardless of our roots, and I'm happy that you don't hear rebel songs at the matches, even if I did enjoy 'Forever & Ever' as a young lad myself back in the late '70s and throughout the '80s.

Sir David Gray
27-10-2017, 05:27 AM
Everyone on this thread seems to be saying they are happy to recognise and celebrate our roots though. Hence the Irish tricolour, our ‘Erin Go Bragh’ club motto and our original Harp badge - which was a lift from the Society of United Irishmen. Hibs even helped start a club in East Lothisn named after the bold Robert Emmett. So it’s very much part of our history and identity without being a wind up .

I’m happy to see Irish tricolours, harps, Erin Go Bragh flags as well as green and white saltires. It’s all part of the rich tapestry that is Hibernian.


I could only conclude that anyone who gets wound up by the sight of the tricolour does so because of some irrational antipathy towards the Irish. Hibs fans shouldn't feel pressurised into pandering to the bigots in the Rangers & Hearts supports (in the case of the Jambos, this is very much a minority I should add).

My simple view on the singing is that Hibs are a fitba team, regardless of our roots, and I'm happy that you don't hear rebel songs at the matches, even if I did enjoy 'Forever & Ever' as a young lad myself back in the late '70s and throughout the '80s.

As CMurdoch has already said I don't have anything against the Irish flag but are the people waving it at games against Hearts and Rangers but suddenly leave it in the drawer at home when we're playing Ross County and Partick Thistle really trying to celebrate our history?

Johnny Clash
27-10-2017, 06:38 AM
As CMurdoch has already said I don't have anything against the Irish flag but are the people waving it at games against Hearts and Rangers but suddenly leave it in the drawer at home when we're playing Ross County and Partick Thistle really trying to celebrate our history?

I wouldn’t get too worlked up about that - supporters make more of an effort for the games against our main rivals. I doubt you’ll see a ‘as the Hibs go marching on’ display against Ross County and Partick Thistle either.

SideBurns
27-10-2017, 06:56 AM
As CMurdoch has already said I don't have anything against the Irish flag but are the people waving it at games against Hearts and Rangers but suddenly leave it in the drawer at home when we're playing Ross County and Partick Thistle really trying to celebrate our history?

I honestly wasn't aware of tricolours being much in evidence in evidence on Tuesday, though I'm sure they were there. Out of about 17000 Hibs fans, roughly how many would you say brought the flag? Less than 10? Without asking every one of those individuals what their motivation was, it's impossible to know and I'm not naive enough to believe that one or two didnae do it simply to wind up the bigoted minority in the Hearts end but they shouldn't have to explain themselves; to me, it's a legitimate expression of pride in our roots.

Anyway, the original OP was about the wording of the song and the consensus seems to be that we're glad the support has moved on from those days.

lapsedhibee
27-10-2017, 07:43 AM
...and that tune, which is used with many varying lyrics, is called "The Auld Orange Flute".

Ha! Does Drs Budge know that the yams' one remaining song is a sectarian outrage? :dunno:

Carheenlea
27-10-2017, 07:55 AM
Because we are a Scottish team playing in the Scottish League whose home is in Edinburgh, the Scottish Capital.

Nothing wrong with the tricolour but those who take it to the matches against Hearts & Rangers are usually at the wind up as were the Hearts bawbags flying the Union Jack at Easter Road on Tuesday night.

I'm sure there was a union flag behind the goals last week at Hampden, a proper one too and not one of the "CCS" styled green, white & black ones, alongside a variety of different Hibs themed flags, tricolours included. We might be the only club to have fans displaying both Union flag and Irish tricolour in the stands!

Carheenlea
27-10-2017, 08:02 AM
Ha! Does Drs Budge know that the yams' one remaining song is a sectarian outrage? :dunno:

The Old Orange Flute is a harmless, humorous folk song that was sung by artists from both unionist and republican backgrounds. I've a copy of the Dubliners singing it.

Mick O'Rourke
27-10-2017, 09:36 PM
The Old Orange Flute is a harmless, humorous folk song that was sung by artists from both unionist and republican backgrounds. I've a copy of the Dubliners singing it.

This link to one of my favourite "Clancy" songs, in collaboration with a couple of The Dubliners
And it is not a rebel song !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97uEToBzJ4



During the 60s, i saw The Clancys and Tommy Makem a number of times at the Usher Hall.
That great auditorium was packed every time
The Old Orange Flute was sang to the rafters.
I knew the words backwards back then!
A number of Hibernian players went to see them.too.
You can maybe guess the ones back then.
Infact,Jimmy O'Rourke bought my ticket for my first visit to see this wonderful folk group.
I paid up myself to future concerts :-)
I was hooked on the group.(as i was on a lot of folk music back then)
I was lucky to get backstage after one concert and meet them.
I had a tricolour autographed by them all.
Sadly,i lost it over the years.

The Clancys sang more traditional Irish/Scots folks songs than they did rebel songs.
But Rebel songs they certainly sang.

Of course this was pre "The Troubles" and their visits petered out.
Just as the singing of Irish songs at ER did around the same time.

So "The Troubles" may have been the reason for that.
Just my thought on that.



Isn't it grand boys....... To be a Hibernian !