The cricket loving, Choice nominated duo that are The Duckworth Lewis Method have penned an alternate Irish national anthem in cahoots with The Irish Times.
Click below to hear the song over at The Irish Times:
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Taking a whimsical view of the state of our country’s economics, popstars and er, sports commentators; Hannon & Walsh’s ditty is short and sweet with it’s tongue firmly in cheek.
Ireland, Ireland damp sod of the earth
Lost on the surf of the north Atlantic
Ireland, Ireland, mounatins and mist
Vodka and chips, it’s so romanticJoyce and Heaney, Beckett and Wilde.
Bill O’Herlihy, Dunphy and Giles
Evansm Hewson, Mullen and Clayton,
Westlife and Jedward, the pride of our nation!Ireland, Ireland, once we were poor
Then we were wealthy, now we are poor again
Cows and horses, donkeys and sheep,
Munster and Leinster, Connacht and *****Chinese, Polish, Africans too
Doing the jobs we don’t want to do
An Irish stew, a nation of nations
Working for peanuts in petrol stationsIreland, Ireland you are the best
Place to thw west of Wales and Scotland
Sometimes it’s heaven, sometimes it’s hell
But I’d rather be Irish than anything else!
(Written by Duckworth & Lewis, copyright 2010)
