The Irish Rovers - The Orange and the Green - Sung by the late, great Jimmy Ferguson 

Yes love it 🤩

Yup. Love this band, and their music. Such a clever take-off on The Wearin' Of The Green.

You bet your life we are!

Yess no better irish songs then by them since my youthdays collected their music

Yes!!! ❤

Your fellow Orange men ruined our country...no time for that ilk!

You’re kids will turn out very well!

Perhaps Episopal?

Be happy! Bet y'all have at least. 2 kiddos! A blessing!

Exactly like my parents, but reversed but . . there was no jokes about it in my house!

My paternal grandparents were the same, a green man married to an orange woman.

We used to make light and joke about our differences and poke fun, now everything is an insult or it hurts their feelings. No wonder we're all a bunch of mean droopy drawers.

Have you ever heard the song with the same music but slower tempo, The Wearin' of the Green? Give it a listen.

from 6 to 12 i remember the Irish Rovers/The Rovers on their weekly tv show. it was always watched. This song brought laughter to our house more than once.

I had the same experience in maybe 1980 or so. Even as far as Canada we couldn't escape news of the troubles on the news, and at least for us, the implication that there was a clear "good" side, Rue Britania and God Save the Queen! and a "bad and evil" side...those bloody Fenian IRA terrorist bastards.

@@pamfeinstein8742 The melody was first heard in the Irish rebel song The Rising of the Moon in 1798. It is, as you mention, the melody for Wearing of the Green and during the American civil war, the Confederacy wrote lyrics for The Wearing of the Gray. My Great-grandpa was Irish, Great-grandma a Scot, and Grandpa said this song described their marriage.

Knew about it and grandad said no shame on you had to mass told I'm going to hell life goes on

My bloooood lirsh county Limerick an cork.

Belfast for me.

If you're Catholic, you're probably green!

@@sheilatruax6172 I guess I'm green!

I think that’s the thing with Celtic music (and NW Euro music/people in general), it’s so had to get us to dance in general that our music had to evolve to make itself almost impossible not to dance to, as you described lol.

@rickmacdonald5575 I usually have music playing at home and sometimes when my wife goes shopping, I will start playing some Irish jigs and dance away for the next hour or two, much to the dismay of my downstairs neighbors. God bless Ireland!❤️

Che was half Irish 😅

Thars lovely Elizabeth 😢

Or with luke kelly, that would be even better.

Amen

Han Yolo that would be a great music feast for those to men if they sang together

Saw you guys in 1987 you are one of a kind, Jim you left us far too soon. I hope there are pubs in heaven.

Love Big Jim since a boy, miss him badly..

Yes, I agree.

You lucky girl! That was back when some banter was innocent and funny...

A wonderful story chubbles , if only Iphones with cameras were around you would have taken a few pictures too, but the truth is that a great memory is far better than a picture.

CF Armstrong Harhar I laughed out loud at that CF.

CF Armstrong thats funny

They tell the story of two good friends, one Irish the other a Scot. The Scot had long been sick and was dying. To his Irish friend he said, "Ach Paddy, when I die would you be takin' my bottle of good Scotch whiskey and pouring' it o're my grave?" His friend replied, " Sure and I would, Joch, but would you mind if I would be runnin' it through me kidneys first?"

CF Armstrong same here

CF Armstrong Man, you have a problem!😁

The musical arrangement is great too.

Amen....what a wonderful song. God bless all!

Mike Cuggsy the Irish can make light of any thing

It's much less about religion and more about the English taking the land. It just happens that those who support staying in the UK are mostly Protestant and Irish Nationalists are Catholic.

@Gavin MacNeish As an Englishman I disagree. The British government, tories, are wankers. But English people are generally decent people.

You've never heard of Newfoundland then. We segregated religions in schools until 1997. Island is Half Protestant English from Devon and half Irish from Wexford

The Irish have this enigmatic quality

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Greeting from an Oz Celt!

Make sure you visit the Inishowen peninsula in NE Donegal - the most beautiful part of Ireland

@@inishowenjohn looking forward to it

For real though, a lot of kids who are homeschooled often get a better education than those who go to school.

You've got good taste.

Well your lrish now kid good girl

I hope someone will help you with getting an Irish Passport. We've been trying to get to the UK, but when we get close to the Border we get detained & questioned by police. We've been held at gun point & threatened to be shot by police in the same area where an Australian woman was murdered by police in the United States. We were threatened to be jailed for Trespassing for parking in a parking lot 4 miles from the Canadian Border. It's worse than that. I made my husband promise that we won't die in the Country that we worked for & my children were kidnapped in. He has never broken a promise & if he breaks this one it will be his first & last because it will mean that we've perished in the United States

This is the story of my family as well, funny thing is that my brother is Catholic and I am Protestant.

Joe DeLory Me dad's a Catholic, me ma's a proddy. Mixed marriages never work.......Men and women

Same here! Just like the song.

OH ,, Yes I know this One, same in my Family growing up ... The Orange & the Green !! But as Young ones we all made Peace !! Although one of our Cousins did refer to the Orange side as Heathens !! Brained washed until , we met Overseas , both in the Canadian Medical, & she came to Iraq , where I was, with N.A.T.O , I had not seen her in years, she took one look at me & a Heathen no more !! :)) God Bless each & everyone !! Orange or Green !!!

My wife and I have a mixed marriage too. I'm a Yankees fan and she's a Red Sox fan.

Big time great times son my god they where

Eh, my children were kidnapped in the United States and we're looking at some wild stuff. Personal photo of Prince Philip when he was about 20. Pictures that look like some of the Romanov's. A Life In Secrets about the missing British Intelligence Agent's isn't just a book. We've been asked if the personal photos we have of some of the missing British Intelligence Agent's came with the book. No, that's why they are personal photos!! Look up Photos Prince Philip 1976. My husband looks like the chap on the left!! I found out yesterday that I have the same blood type as John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe & Sir Michael Jagger among others.. I still have my Fingerprints from when I worked for the Federal Government in the United States and before. We just need a way home.. My husband was called Scotsman when he was younger. Have a smile on us

@@littlebit6211 wtf

Hmm

Yeah

Andrew Wilson classic line !! LOL 😂

My favorite line! :D

Atta boy lad

Met all the lads back in the mid-80's then Keith, had a lovely photo taken with Jimmy...must find it in me treasures sometime. He was a great lad, funny even off stage so...rip Jimmy

@@murphs511 I'd heard that Jimmy was the same off-stage as he was when he was performing. You're lucky to have met him - I'd give my eye-teeth for the chance!

@@keithhanley7796 , he was one-of-a-kind, truly...the rest of the band were a bit more serious, well except George Millar...he was quite the comic that one! Wish we could travel back to the 70's then, just for about 20 years or so...lol...

@@murphs511 if only that were possible!

My middle son's favorite line, too.

Such a great line. I laugh every time.

My family migrated to Glasgow @ turn of the last century, Michael & Margaret Sloan

passed away at a very young age rip

@@danielstone9404 k[

Since I was a lass in Sydney town and met 3 Irish tradesmen during times of trouble in Ireland me to

@@MarkAnthony-wo9fr a delicious cocktail

Yep like my grandmother (English) and grandfather (Irish Catholic) born raised in Michigan

That's me an' a' !

Have your DNA checked Lass. 😉

Love your thinking that people were actually orange and green. 🌲🌝☘️

This song is about you.

thats brilliant! same with me here in Ireland

Love it

You couldn't possibly mean goodness is in everyone, that would be a great insult to victims. But your sentiment was nice

@@dawnjohnson3263 Dear Dawn, I told about river of goodness and meant karma, good deeds and creations of our forefathers and think there should be no insult and moreover victims, wish you a good mood under sweet tunes of ageless Irish Rovers.

@@bachata_dancer thanks Boris and to you!

Erin go bra Jimmy alright r.i.p. Ed Wood Chico Cal

Awesome