A REAL IRISH WAKE

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MUSIC TO SAY GOODBYE BY

YOUTUBE: SINEAD O'CONNOR
"Davy Spillane feat Sinead O'Connor-Danny Boy (The Derry Air)"
If no one will sing this song for you, you're a poor man indeed.


THE LAST FEW NOTES FROM THE 1960's

Teddy, We Hardly Knew Ye

There'll be no throwing of the uisce beatha in the man's face. No brawling, no arguments, no slamming of doors. One last time in fifty years, we Irish Americans will quietly and mournfully say goodbye to one of our own, the last of his kind, forever. We would have upturned Heaven and Earth to find Teddy's brother's killer, but we did not. We observed the custom of this great forgiving land, and we moved on, carrying John Kennedy's torch with us. We wanted to tear out our hair and rend our garments, smash something or someone when Teddy's brother Bobby was murdered, but we held ourselves to the principles we shared with him, and fought peacefully for peace and justly for justice, which we never found. Now poor old Teddy is gone. He escaped assassination by foregoing his rightful role as our President, and worked in the mired trenches of the Senate instead. Edward Moore Kennedy won some, he lost some, but he never quit fighting. Now we will again quietly mourn one of our very own, and again we will take up that torch. We will never give up the struggle for peace and justice, because we are Irish, and we are Americans, we never forget, and we never give up.


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YOUTUBE: THE CHIEFTAINS
"The Chieftains - Women Of Ireland (Mná na h-Éireann)"
A lament. Of course.



YOUTUBE: DION
"Abraham, Martin & John - Dion - Lyrics"
Always hated this song. Don't like crying.



YOUTUBE: ARETHA FRANKLIN
"Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Water"
I got yer Chappaquiddick right heah, you Nazi f**ks.



YOUTUBE: PETER, PAUL & MARY
"If I Had A Hammer PETER,PAUL & MARY"
A song about the hammer of justice and the bell of freedom, and love between my brothers and my sisters. Silly, hunh?



YOUTUBE: BRIAN O'BRIEN
"Brian O'Brien Caoineadh Cu Chulainn (Lament) Uilleann Pipes"
These are the real bagpipes. More for laments than marches.



YOUTUBE: WALELA
"Native American - Amazing Grace (in cherokee)"
Another County heard from!



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JACKSON FUNERAL? MJ IS ALIVE & WELL!

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FUNERAL JUST SHOW: KING OF POP
MOVES IN WITH THE PALINS



SARAH PALIN HAS TURNED TRIG OVER TO
MICHAEL JACKSON FOR "POP THERAPY"

Love-Starved Star Just Wanted Attention, Offered To Solve Palin's Money Problems

Two of the new millenium's great mysteries were solved in one shot today, as Michael Jackson sat up in his coffin and began singing, then danced his way through astonished crowds and into a waiting chopper which whisked him to LAX behind a huge LAPD helicopter escort. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was there at the airport with her new corporate jet, Chosen-1, a gift from Jackson, to whisk the freshly resurrected musician off to the new home she will share with Jackson in the 49th State: The Wasilla Dome, recently purchased and specially redone as a kiddie playland by Michael Jackson in return for full custody of all male children in the extended Palin family under the age of puberty. Palin's daughter is now pregnant and hoping for another boy for the King Of Pop.

"It's like the parting of the Red Sea, or velcro, or just a damned miracle" the Governor gushed. "Michael is backing my run for the Presidency next year, and I'm helping him with his problems, and by golly, the Lord sure moves in mysterious ways! Together, we'll have this country straightened out in no time, you betchya!" she finished with a wink.

Jackson's publicists apologized to fans, saying that Michael felt that he needed to see if his fans still loved him, and to reboot his career. One of his security doubles volunteered to undergo an autopsy in Jacko's place. He will be buried tomorrow with a copy of Jackson's new CD. Sales of the CD are now through the roof, proving Jackson's career revival strategy worked. Republicans across the nation praised Palin's new patron, and invited him to Klan meetings across the country, now that he is white, and born again.
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