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Album: Miscellaneous (2009)
Artists: Clancy Brothers

  1. Ballinderry
  2. Biddy Mulligan The Pride Of The Coombe
  3. Black Cavalry
  4. Bold Robert Emmet
  5. Boulavogue
  6. Calton Weaver
  7. Coortin In The Kitchen
  8. Cruiskeen Lawn
  9. Easy And Slow
  10. Finnegans Wake
  11. I Know My Love
  12. Ill Tell Me Ma
  13. Isnt It Grand Boys
  14. Jennifer Gentle
  15. Johnny Mac Adoo
  16. Jug Of Punch
  17. Kelly The Boy From Killanne
  18. Maid Of The Sweet Brown Knowe
  19. Moses Ritooraliay
  20. Mrs Mcgrath
  21. Mush Mush
  22. My Johnny Lad
  23. Rockin The Cradle
  24. Roddy Mccorley
  25. The Braes O Balquiddher Wild Mountain Thyme
  26. The Croppy Boy
  27. The Gallant Forty Twa
  28. The Holy Ground
  29. The Juice Of The Barley
  30. The Lowlands Of Holland
  31. The Men Of The West
  32. The Old Orange Flute
  33. The Real Old Mountain Dew
  34. Whack Fol The Diddle
  35. What Would You Do
  36. Why Paddys Not At Work Today
  37. Wild Colonial Boy


Clancy Brothers
Miscellaneous
Moses Ritooraliay
MOSES RI-TOORAL-I-AY
(Brain O'Higgins)

The policeman walked out, oh, so proud on his beat
When a vision came to him of stripes on his sleeve;
"Promotion," he whispered, "I'll try for today,
So its come with me Mister Ri-tooral-i-ay."

"Come tell me your name," says the limb of the law
To the little fat man selling wares on the straw.
"What's that, sir? Me name, sir? Why it's there on display
And it's Moses Ri-tooral-i-ooral-i-ay."

Now, the trial it came on and it lasted a week.
One judge said 'twas German; another, 'twas Greek-
"Prove you're lrish," said the policeman "and beyond it say nay;
And we'll sit on it, Moses Ri-tooral-i-ay."

Now the prisoner stepped up there as stiff as a crutch.
"Are you lrish or English or German or Dutch?"
"I'm a Jew, sir; I'm a Jew, sir," that came over to stay.
And my name it is Moses Ri-tooral-i-ay."

"We're two of a kind." said the judge to the Jew;
"You're a cousin of Briscoe and I am one too.
This numbskull has blundered and for it will pay."
"Wisha that's right," says Moses Ri-tooral-i-ay.

There's a garbage eollcctor who works down our strset;
He once was a policeman, the pride of his beat.
And he moans all the night and he groans all the day,
Singing," Moses Ri-tootal-i-ooral-i-ay. "

Note: This reflects on the period when the Irish language was
outlawed in Ireland; the inability of the police to speak, or
even recognize the language presented enforcement problems.
Briscoe was Dublin's mayor. He was Jewish. (As the story
goes, "only in America."

Recorded by Clancys
See also LIMBLAW
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