Richard Chonak wrote: >Well, I'm surprised by the lyrics: the BBC > was playing a folk-song by Catholic Irish > rebelling against Protestant English? > Am I reading this right? That's how I read it, too. This makes "Lilli Burlero" a 'cross-the-Pond cousin to our own "Yankee Doodle," which was written to deride the very people who wound up singing it with pride. Howard