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Colum Sands
	Year:	1996
	Album:	ALL MY WINDING JOURNEYS
	Song:	The boys of Tandragee/The hag at the churn
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music Colum Sands: vocals, guitar, tin wistle, Ben Sands: Backing Vocals Anne Sands: Bodhrán Berndan Monaghan: Whistle Martin McAllister: Guitar Liam Bradley: Drums/percussion Liam O'Flynn: Uilleann Pipes
Good luck to you all now barring the cat That sits in the corner a smelling the rat Ah whisht you philandering girls and behave And saving your presence I'll chant you a stave I come from a land where the praties grow big And the girls neat and handy can dance a fine jig And the boys they would charm your heart for to see They're wonderfull fellas round Tandragee Chorus: Here's to the boys that are happy and gay Singing an dancing and tearing away Rollicksome frollicksome frisky and free We're the rollicking boys around Tandragee The oul jaunting car is the elegant joult And Derry's the place that is famed for the hoult Among the green bushes that grow in Tyrone And County Fermanagh for muscle and bone For feasting and brarney and fun at the fair There's none to compare with the Rakes of Kildare Green Erin my country's the gem of the see But the gem of oul Ireland is Tandragee Chorus No doubt you have heard of Killarney I'm sure And sweet Inishowen for the drop of the pure Dublin's the place for the Strawberry Beds And Donnybrook Fair for the cracking of heads Dit you ere see an Irishman dancing poltog How he faces his partner and turn upo his brog He shakes at the buckle and bends at the knee Wonderfull dancers in Tandragee Now Where is the man either Christian or Turk To equal the bold Robert Emmet or Burke Where is the lawyer could speak up like Dan There's devil another bad luck to the one And where is the singer could sing like Tom Moore Whose melodies charm every care from your door We'll beat them all yet boys and that you will see Sure we're rearing fine fellas roud Tandragee Chorus