THE SHAMROCK AND OUR QUEEN, (A new version of 'The Wearing of the Green.')

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 134, 19 April 1900, Page 1

THE SHAMROCK AND OUR QUEEN, (A new version of ' The Wearing of the Green.')

0 Paddy, dear, and have you -heard the news'from Britain's Queen ?—? — She's oidered all her Irish toys to carry sprigs of green: With Ireland's leaf pinned in our hats Wb'd face her foes again, Who would deny her gracious rule and stain her noble name.

Chorus: Then east aside your old-time griefs, for Ireland's day has come, And on the field of battle Old Ireland's sons have won What all the spokesmen of oar land have ever failed to gain — The love of every Englishman who sees that sprig of green! , Then Wear it in your hats, my boys, that little leaf so green. 'Tis loved and valued by our good, our great, and gracious Queen : And nevermore shall Ireland weep to see her sons despised Because they've fought for Ireland and the darhng shamrock prized.—Chorus The Scotsman loves his thistle, and the Englishman his rose, But both are pioud to ' twine theirs with The leaf that Ireland grows : With them we've fought for Britain's Queen—and braver ne'er were seen! — But where they went we went as well, Who love the shamrock green.