Rhymes added occasionally
Bill Clinton's Future Rhymesfor Little Belfast Girls1 Belfast, Derry, quite contrary, how do your gardens grow? With stones and yells and CS shells, and soldiers all in a row. 2 Wee Willie rioter runs through the town, throwing stones and petrol bombs and burning houses down, crying at the funerals so everyone can see, and blaming it on England on American TV. 3. Humpty Ulster walked on the walls, Humpty Ulster had some great falls, all the Queen's officers, all the Queen's men, couldn't put Humpty together again. 4. Little Jack bomber lurked round the corner as all the Brit soldiers went by, He cocked his big gun with his cute little thumb and said 'One of you's goin' to die'. 5. Peace-porridge hot, Peace-porridge cold, Peace-porridge in the pot Seventy-eight years old. Some will like it hot, Some will like it cold, Some will keep on stirring While some of us grow old. 6. Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm me; unless they're a punishment beating by the Irish Republican Army. 7. Ding Dong Bell! Northern Ireland's been in hell. Who helped to push her in? (Clue: it rhymes with 'sin'). Who pulled her out? Of that there is no doubt - the bride of peace has found a groom, and his name is Johhny Hume. 8. Wee Davy Trimble was awfully nimble on the barricades at Drumcree! But once he had reckoned that real power beckoned he was reasonable as could be! 9. Sing a song of sixpence, the smuggler's riding high, four and twenty Armagh sheep baked into a pie; when the pie was opened the foot-and-mouth was freed to kill the Celtic Tiger through stupid peasant greed. 10. Baa! baa! black sheep, have you any wool? Yes sir! (sorry) No sir! in Brussels there's a fool who pays an annual premium for sheep I haven't got. Have I been snuffling in the trough? Well, frankly ... quite a lot! 11. I have a little arms dump, but I won't tell you where, because I'd have to give it up and that would not be fair. General John de Chastelain really gets the hump, because I won't surrender my little arms dump. He thought he had it sorted, and so did the Finn. They want to seal my arms dump, but I will not give in. I say 'I will not use it, if the Brits will just agree that the only winner in this war - is me .. me .. me' 12. Holy Cross Skipping Song The Landrovers drive through the ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The Landrovers drive through the ally-ally-O, On the last day of September. The blast bomb sails through the ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The blast bomb sails through the ally-ally-O, On the last day of October. The big men scream through the ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The big men scream through the ally-ally-O, On the last day of November. The women spit through the ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The women spit through the ally-ally-O, On the last day of December. And shame seeps through the ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, The ally-ally-O, And shame seeps through the ally-ally-O, and hope is a fading ember. Don't know the melody? - click here 13. How many miles to Omagh Town? Three score and ten. Can I get there by candlelight? Aye, and back again. You can give the kids a special treat by leaving Death parked in the street. 14. Georgie-Porgie, pudding and pie, avoided Vietnam while learning to fly, but when Osama came out to play, Georgie-Porgie ran away! 15. Frère Jacques, Frère Jacques, dissimulez-vous, dissimulez vous? Le cheque brittanique, le cheque brittanique, n'est pas l'issue, n'est pas l'issue! (issue used in the figurative sense of 'way out' or 'solution') URL: www.mourne.org/rhymes.htm |