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The Old Orange Flute easy guitar chords by 
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
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Verse 1
G
C
In the county Tyrone,
in the town of Dungannon
F
Where many a ruckus me
G
self had a hand in
F
Bob Williamson lived
G
Am
there, a weaver by trade
C
G
And all of us thought him
C
a stout- hearted blade.
Verse 2
C
On the twelfth of July as
F
it yearly did come
C
F
Bob played on the flute to
C
G
the sound of the drum
F
You can talk of your fiddles,
C
Am
your harp or your lute
C
But there's nothing could sound
G
C
like the Old Orange Flute.
Verse 3
C
But the treacherous scoundrel,
G
C
he took us all in
F
For he married a Papish
G
named Bridget McGinn
F
Turned Papish himself and
C
F
Am
forsook the Old Cause
C
G
That gave us our freedom,
C
religion and laws.
Verse 4
C
And the boys in the county made
F
such a stir on it
C
Am
They forced Bob to flee to
G
the province of Connaught;
F
C
F
Took with him his wife and his fixins,
C
to boot,
G
And along with the rest went the
C
Old Orange Flute.
Verse 5
C
Each Sunday at mass, to atone
for past deeds,
F
Bob said Paters and Aves
G
and counted his beads
F
C
Till one Sunday morn, at
F
Am
the priest's own require
C
Am
Bob went for to play with
G
C
the flutes in the choir.
Verse 6
C
Am
F
He went for to play
with the flutes in the mass
C
But the instrument quivered
G
and cried."O Alas!"
F
C
And blow as he would,
F
though he made a great noise,
Am
C
G
The flute would play only
C
"The Protestant Boys".
Verse 7
C
Bob jumped up and huffed,
G
C
and was all in a flutter.
F
He pitched the old flute in
G
the best holy water;
F
He thought that this charm would
Am
bring some other sound,
C
Am
G
When he tried it again,
C
it played "Croppies Lie Down!"
Verse 8
C
F
And for all he would finger
and twiddle and blow
C
For to play Papish music,
G
the flute would not go;
F
"Kick the Pope" to "Boyne
Water" was all it would sound
C
Am
G
Not one Papish bleat in it
could e'er be found.
C
At
Verse 9
a council of priests that was
G
C
held the next day
F
They decided to banish
G
the Old Flute away;
F
They couldn't knock heresy
out of its head
C
G
So they bought Bob another
C
to play in its stead.
G
C
An d the Old Flute was doomed,
Verse 10
C
F
and it s fate was pathetic
C
'Twas fastened an d burnt
G
at the stake as heretic.
F
C
As the flames rose around it,
F
C
you could hear a strange noise
G
'Twas the Old Flute still a- whistlin'
C
F
C
G
C
"TheProt estant Boys".
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