Talk:Croppies Lie Down
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I have been to many Orange Parades and NEVER heard ANY song being sung. Tunes are played by bands. They do not sing.
- Being played by bands at Orange parades can hardly make this song, of all the songs they play, especially notorious. I have replaced that claim with a statement to the effect that "croppies lie down" is used by republicans to symbolise a perceived loyalist desire to continue the oppression. - Paul 18:38, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
This "song" was historically played by loyalists/orangists to sneer and taunt the native Irish- there are planty of references to riots being caused by it - however maybe it is not often played in the six couties today. --Ponox 11:14, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- I've not heard it sung, for what that's worth. I also toned down some un-encyclopaedic language. I would say that "glory[ing] in the brutal suppression of the rebellion" would be more "yo ho ho we killed their babies" - and the song, while clearly partisan, is not at that level - so we're back to "celebrates... suppression", which IMO is less polemical and more encyclopaedic. You can keep "menacingly" for the last verse though. Reading the lyrics, there does seem to have been brutality in Irish society at the time. - Paul (talk) 06:58, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
