{"id":293,"date":"2013-01-30T02:31:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T02:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/?page_id=293"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:02:27","slug":"green-badge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/lyrics\/whiskey-priest\/green-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dustin Welch, Super Rooster Music (SESAC); Mark Germino, Black Rhapsody Music (ASCAP)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Egan Reilly, I was born in county Clare<br>I married in the spring of \u201939 a lass so fair<br>We moved to London at her wish, we dwelled in Camden homes<br>But the Irish Guard they sought to make a soldier of me bones<br>We kissed goodbye at Euston Square, we swore upon the cross<br>Should I return alive in spring, we\u2019d celebrate till frost<br>We vowed should I set foot back on the soil I would defend<br>We\u2019d go back to our dear Ireland and never leave again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hell\u2019s bells, slosh the county ale<br>The rats are in the grain and I can hear the nightingale<br>Hell\u2019s bells, sing O\u2019Carolan\u2019s dirge<br>For Ireland I shall try to win the Green Badge of Courage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We set about for Norway as our ladies left to mourn<br>The mighty 24th brigade, we dressed in British warms<br>We pushed the Nazi\u2019s back, we let them know we were in town<br>While Battalion Two went sailing through the Hook o\u2019 Holland Sound<br>In March of \u201943 to northern Africa we sailed<br>\u2018Twas there inside Tunisia pints of Irish blood was spilled<br>But Corporeal John Keneally fired his bren gun from his hip<br>And as the Germans broke and ran we watched his leg begin to drip<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hell\u2019s Bells, slosh the county ale\u2026<br>\u2026For Ireland I resolve to win the Green Badge of Courage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Took Anzio in \u201944, then we were homeward bound<br>Our families walked to Camden Loch and met us at the Crown<br>My wife was there with open arms, so glad to have me home<br>But she had gained 300 pounds, now she weighed twenty-seven stone<br>After say a pint or two she took me by the hand<br>Marched us to our bedroom where so naked she would stand<br>I kissed her and I told her she looked lovely as the frost<br>Then she picked me up and hauled me off to win the Victory Cross<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hell\u2019s bells, slosh the county ale\u2026<br>\u2026.By morning\u2019s turn I will have earned the Green Badge of Courage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dustin Welch: banjo, vocals; Drew Smith: acoustic guitar, vocals; Kyle Ellison: electric guitar; Trisha Keefer: violin; Joe Beckham: electric bass; Joe Humel: drums<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I had this traditional Irish banjo melody and took it over to Germino. He listened to it, agreed to write it, and said &#8220;Gimme two weeks.&#8221; I thought he just wasn&#8217;t in the mood to do anything with it at the time. Turns out, he spent the next two weeks extensively researching the Irish Guard. He handed me a lyric sheet and I don&#8217;t think I even changed one damn word. He decided it it needed some kinda humorous twist at the end, like all good Irish ballads. The only thing he could figure was when the guy got home from the war, his bride had become extremely overweight, and the way that he finally wins the &#8216;Green Badge of Courage&#8217; is by allowing her to take him to bed the night of his return. I wholeheartedly agreed, and thusly, the song was born.<br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustin Welch, Super Rooster Music (SESAC); Mark Germino, Black Rhapsody Music (ASCAP) My name is Egan Reilly, I was born in county ClareI married in the spring of \u201939 a lass so fairWe moved to London at her wish, we dwelled in Camden homesBut the Irish Guard they sought to make a soldier of me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":234,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-293","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions\/500"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}