{"id":69,"date":"2014-06-05T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2014-08-08T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:38:17","slug":"youd-think-it-was-a-great-place-if-you-didnt-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/youd-think-it-was-a-great-place-if-you-didnt-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019d Think It Was A Great Place If You Didn\u2019t Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cJesus, you\u2019d think Leitrim was a great place (listening to the song) if you didnt feckin know it!\u201d<\/p>\n

~ John Carty of Errew, a cousin of ours commenting on Larry Cunninghams song to my father, also John Carty<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

DISCLAIMER – This is NOT a skit of Leitrim, its based on the comment about how folk – such as the singer – make out in their songs all is lovely when its not, for it makes more than rolling green feilds to make a place good to live in. The man who made the comment himself was from Leitrim. I make this disclaimer as I got greif already from a Leitrim resident who took umbridge to it in good faith. And the poem is about all of Ireland.<\/em><\/p>\n

We got green rolling hills, and smiling cailins, and rivers and lakes pure
\nFor there are no mines or factories to pollute them, of that we can be sure<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve quaint ways of talking and thinking, the Americans think it a shame we should lose
\nAs if we are a museum that he can come and go from and use.<\/p>\n

Itd be a shame to spoil the landscape with windmills, the Americans would never come
\nBack to their homeland if they are erected to see where their ancestors are from.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d be nowhere without America, we tell every Yank we meet,
\nNo-one seems to say: \u201cArise! Lets stand on our own feet!\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re the best nation of scrougers and chancers, we think us important on a global scale
\nWe nearly broke all of Europe with our banking failures scale.<\/p>\n

We bail out banks and corporations, we shut hospitals and schools
\nWe punish the poor who protest, for the rich we bend the rules\u2026<\/p>\n

We are as currupt as any Eastern European country, its just that we dont show it\u2026
\nYoud think Ireland a great little country, if you didnt feckin know it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cJesus, you\u2019d think Leitrim was a great place (listening to the song) if you didnt feckin know it!\u201d ~ John Carty of Errew, a cousin of ours commenting on Larry Cunninghams song to my father, also John Carty DISCLAIMER – This is NOT a skit of Leitrim, its based on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,54,130,2],"tags":[132,113,131],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","category-politics","category-satire","tag-fracking","tag-leitrim","tag-windmills","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-17","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4797,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/leitrim-of-the-legends\/","url_meta":{"origin":69,"position":0},"title":"Leitrim of the Legends","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"1st November 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\"You'd think it was lovely if you didn't know it\" Said John Carty to John Carty one day... 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