Lily O Traditional Orange Song
Orignial album The Orange of Ulster Lyrics: And did you go to see the show, Each rose and pink a dilly, O To feast your eyes, and view the prize, Won by the Orange Lily, O Chorus: Heigh ho, the Lily, O The royal, loyal Lily, O Beneath the sky, what flower can vie. With Erin s Orange Lily, O 2. The Viceroy there, so debonair, Just like a daffadilly, O With Lady Clarke, Blithe as a lark, Approached the Orange Lily, O Chorus: 3. Sir Charley too, looked, very blue, While laughed Horse Master Billy, O To think his ex a flower should vex And that an Orange Lilly, O Chorus: 4. A fairer flower, throughout the bower He sought, but willy nilly, O With moistened eyes, he gave the prize To Erin s Orange Lily, O Chorus: 5. The lowland field may roses yield, Gay heaths the Highland hilly, O But high or low, no flower can show, Like Erin s Orange Lily, O,
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