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The Old Orange Flute (also spelt Ould Orange Flute) is a folk song originating in Ireland. It is often associated with the Orange Order. Despite this, its humour ensured a certain amount of cross-community appeal, especially in the period before the commencement of The Troubles in the late 1960s, and it has also been recorded by artists better-known for songs associated with Irish nationalism, such as The Dubliners. ==History== The tune itself, often referred to as ''Villikins and his Dinah'' after a music hall song of the 1850s (and in America as ''Sweet Betsy from Pike''), has been used with many variations for a large number of folk songs and sea shanties, and has been called the "primal tune".〔Hugill, S. ''Shanties from the Seven Seas: Shipboard Work-songs and Songs Used as Work-songs'', Routledge, 1979, p.468〕 Related fiddle tunes are found as early as the 18th century. ''The Old Orange Flute'', however, originated more recently, probably in the 19th century, when a variant of the tune was used to set an anonymously-authored broadside. The earliest known records of the words appeared in 1907 in two books: ''A Collection of Orange and Protestant Songs''〔Peake, William, ed., ''A Collection of Orange and Protestant Songs'', Belfast Newsletter, Belfast, 1907〕 and ''The golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics''.〔Welsh, Charles, ed., ''The golden treasury of Irish songs and lyrics'', Volume 2, Dodge Publishing Company, New York, 1907, p. 410, accessible on (Google Books )〕 The latter, published in New York, classifies the song as "Anonymous street ballad". Several books〔Finnegan, R. (ed) ''The Penguin book of oral poetry'', 1978, p.198; (Irish Traditional Music Archive )〕 attribute authorship of the words to one Nugent Bohem, but this is a misreading of the title of a book containing the song from the Dublin publisher Nugent & Co: (Bohemian Songster" ). It has been claimed〔Maume, Patrick. ''The Long Gestation: Irish Nationalist Life, 1891-1918'', Palgrave Macmillan, 1999, p.130〕 () that the words were written by a nationalist as a parody of Orangeism and were first published in the nationalist journal ''Sinn Fein'' on 2 November 1912. This is clearly refuted by the existence of the two books from 1907. The publication in ''Sinn Fein'',〔''Sinn Fein'', 2 Nov. 1912, p.3〕 under the title The Magic Flute, carries no explanation but a facetious attribution to Edward Carson, the unionist politician. Why ''Sinn Fein'' published it is a mystery. Maybe the editor was duped by a person unknown into thinking it was original. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Old Orange Flute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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