TRÚ Rebel Song Official Video

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Filmed somewhere along the border on the 11th night of July 2021, the video captures us taking part in our own bonfire celebration, with a song to mark the occasion. • Video by Je Suis Le Cat Productions. • 'Rebel Song' is taken from our debut album 'No Fixed Abode' OUT NOW: https://truband3.bandcamp.com • True to the ancient folk process, Rebel Song is a patchwork of other songs. • “The Patriot Game” is an Irish ballad whose lyrics were written by Dominic Behan, who set his text to the air of traditional tune “The Merry Month of May” (also known as “The Nightingale”). It is a pro-republican, anti-British song telling the story of Fergal O’Hanlon, an IRA Volunteer from Monaghan Town. Interestingly, Christy Moore has said that British soldiers often request the song at his gigs. • The Clancy Brothers made this song internationally famous during the 1960s folk revival, but chose not to sing the verses condoning the murders of Irish police officers. They also omitted the lines criticising Éamon de Valera. Bob Dylan’s 1964 song “God On Our Side” is based on the version he heard from the Clancy Brothers, and a few of Dylan’s lines make their way into Rebel Song too. • In our song, we’ve added a totally new chorus to the traditional strophic form. The chorus phrase “with the speed of a flame” is taken directly from Behan’s text, while the second verse sings of “a beauty born terrible / and worse was the cost” providing a direct reference to “Easter 1916” by W.B. Yeats, a momentous poem itself in the history of Irish republicanism. • This is a beautiful melody with a text we’ve updated for 2021, written for a post-Brexit Northern Ireland. DK

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