Áine's Air (2) by Hyperabid


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St. Patrick's Day 2000 Special Song Challenge: Bob, Corned Beef and The Devil -- Dateline Boston, USA. Some Irish Catholics may have a beef with the church on St. Patrick's Day. This year, the holiday falls on a Friday in Lent, the period when Roman Catholics are encouraged to abstain from eating meat as an act of penance and a reminder of the sacrifices of Jesus. Many Catholic bishops, including Boston's and New York's, are giving dispensation to parishioners who want to partake of the traditional Irish-American meal of corned beef and cabbage. But some bishops are refusing to let their congregations off the hook, like Bishop Sean O'Malley of Fall River, Massachusetts, has not issued a dispensation. As a result, Catholics with a hankering for corned beef on March 17th may be heading to nearby Boston. But even without a dispensation, there is a possible out for those who don't want to ignore the rules but feel a craving for corned beef: They can travel to another diocese where the meal is deemed OK. "Corned beef and cabbage is a mainstay of our menu," says Jerry Burke, owner of Doyle's Cafe, an Irish pub in Boston's Jamaica Plains neighborhood, "And people are going to do it anyway." Mr. Burke expects to sell thousands of pounds of corned beef and cabbage this Friday. Also included in the no-no parishes are those in Rockville Centre, New York and Brooklyn, New York."

Áine's Air (2) by Hyperabid
(Tune: Scarboro' Fair – Simon and Garfunkel et al)

"Are you going to St Patrick's day fair?"
Cabbage, Beef, Draught Guinness, Whiskey
"Yes on a blind date to find my true lover
Only because my mates they dared me"

"What will he be like this lover of yours?"
Cabbage, Beef, Draught Guinness, Whiskey
"I just hope he's not drunk, crawling on all fours
Then he can be a lover to me"

"Will he be handsome, will he be rich?"
Cabbage, Beef, Draught Guinness, Whiskey
"I don't really care if he has not a stitch
Just so long as he's right for me"

"Do you know whether you'll give him your hand?"
Cabbage, Beef, Draught Guinness, Whiskey
"That lies in my future - time's shifting sand
The hope of my heart of what might yet be"

"(I) have seen that future my pretty maid fair"
Cabbage, Beef, Draught Guinness, Whiskey
"The gold of your life, today you'll find there
Good fortune, good luck, good morrow," said he.