Lillibulero
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Lillibulero" has been called the "tune that drove James out of<br> three countries" (i.e. England, Scotland and Ireland).<br> "Lillibulero" was an anonymously composed Whig tune (i.e. joined<br> to various anti-Catholic words) and the British army's song<br> during the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in which William of Orange<br> defeated James II.<br> Henry Purcell published "Lillibullero" in his compilation<br> Music's Handmaid of 1689 as "a new Irish tune".<br> Other words have been set to the tune. Of these words, the best-known<br> is "The Protestant Boys", an Ulster Protestant folk lyric which is<br> played by flute bands accompanying the Orange Order during Orange<br> or band-only parades in Northern Ireland.<br> "Nottingham Ale" is an English drinking song sung to the tune of<br> "Lillibullero". It was sung at the launching ceremony of "The Nottingham"<br> an East Indiaman on March 7, 1787 at the Clevey's yard, Gravesend.<br> I don't include the lyrics of any of these because I don't sing them.<br> There is even an American song attributed to the ballad scholar Francis J. Child,<br> it is a satire on Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy.<br>
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