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Mark Now What Followed, and What Did Betide, For It Being on Christmas Morning

Mark Now What Followed, and What Did Betide, For It Being on Christmas Morning

Paul Brady’s “Arthur McBride”

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Dec 25, 2024
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ARTHUR MCBRIDE is “the most good-natured, mettlesome, and un-pacifistic of anti-militarist songs, said one A.L. Lloyd.

And a very good Christmas tune indeed.

Enjoy its history— it goes back to the early 18th century.

Paul Brady’s performance, 1977:

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