The Orange And The Green

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This is an Irish folk song about a man whose father was a Protestant (Orange) and his mother was a Catholic (Green). It goes through this man's trials as the product of religious intermarriage and how mixed up he turned out to be from such an upbringing. This song was recorded by The Irish Rovers, The Wolfe Tones, and more recently by the Brobdingnagian Bards. It is sung to the same tune as The Wearing of the Green.

Recurring lyric:

Oh, it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen.

My father, he was Orange and me mother, she was green.