The Sash is Back!

For it’s here I am an Orangeman, just come across the sea

For singing and for dancing, I hope that I’ll please thee,

I can sing and dance with any man, as I did in days of yore.

And its on the twelfth I long to wear the Sash My Father wore.

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It is old but it is beautiful and it’s colours they are fine.

It was worn at Derry, Aughrim, Enniskillen and the Boyne.

My Father wore it as a youth in the bygone days of yore

And its on the twelfth I long to wear, The Sash My Father wore.

For it’s now I’m going to leave you, good luck to you I’ll say,

And when I’m on the ocean deep, I hope for me you”ll pray

I’m going to my native land, to a place they call Dromore.

Where on the twelfth I long to wear the Sash My father wore.

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Whenever I come back again my brethren here to see,

I hope to find old Orange style, they will always welcome me.

My favorite tune’s ‘Boyne Water’. but to please me more and more,

And make my Orange Heart full glad with the Sash My Father wore.

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I noticed a house near where i live is ripping out the newly installed PVC windows (They were installed by the previous owner) and replacing them with wooden sash windows.
On quizing the new neighbour she explained that in germany (where they have moved from) They no longer make PVC windows bacause they are believed to release toxic gasses and as they are completly sealed allow no air in and have just become so unpopular.
Lets hope this will happen in ireland soon.
Having said that I wouldnt want to see every house in the country with wooden sash wondows!