Notes - Oh No not the Fields of Athenry!

"A few years ago on a session at the Victoria at Worton, Wensleydale I heard someone sing the piss take chorus to this song. It was too much to resist - wrote the rest of the lyrics around it. Not long aftwards on a tape of 'Irish Karaoke' I found a track crass enough to carry the end result. The rest is legend!

Sending up the 'Fields of Athenry' tends to divide folkies into two camps - those who fall about and those who think it 'sacrilege'! Unfortunately for the performer, parody renders the original 'never the same again'! Consequently I am unable to render the correct version without a smirk!