The Ould Orange Flute
Contributors
Fieldworkers
Date
September 1959
Track ID
59429
Part 1
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1959.108.A6
Original Tape ID
Summary
A comic song in which a Protestant man marries a Catholic woman. His flute refuses to convert, and will only play Orange songs, causing it to be burnt at the stake as heretical.
Item Notes
5 verses of 8 lines, except verse 2 with 4 lines (repeat of second half of first verse); refrain of 2 lines. Sung to a tune variant of 'Villikins and his Dinah' (Roud Folk Song Index no. 271).
See:
'Irish Street Ballads' (C. O Lochlainn, 1978) pp. 100-101
Recording Location
County - Kincardineshire
Parish - Fetteresso
Village/Place - Stonehaven
Language
English
Genre
Collection
Classification
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good