Botanic Endgame - Michael Marra
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Notes: The song is based around a chess club meeting in Belfast with subversive humour coming from using
terminology more commonly used during "The Troubles". "Fraoich" is Gaelic for heather and is a female name
which can be pronounced a few ways usually depending on region but "Fray-och" or "Froo-ch" are used.
"Tiocfaidh ar la" means "our day will come" and was associated with many republican prisoners during
"The Troubles"...it is usually pronounced "Chuckah are lah" though again, regional variations exist.
The phrase which procedes it "No Surrender" was associated with unionists during the same times.
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[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Take a cab downtown and meet a man called Seamus, shake him by the hand tell him all is well
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Rendezvous with Billy in the bar you'll be shown to a room in the York Ho-tel

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These boys never heard of tentative gambits they're more or less nuttin' so you must take care
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They'll all have pieces and they'll all be frowning a-larm clock ticking on a beer mat there

Bm
Half hearted Henno from the Crumlin Road sweet little Fraoich from the South Armagh
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And the one killed a bishop crying "No Sur-render" the other hits a knight and it's "Tiocfaidh ar la"

[Instrumental]
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Bm
Heavies from the falls and the Shankill Road one step forward and one to the side
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There's a big man coming all the way from Derry a-nother who'll be training it from Mala-hide

Bm
You can rely on Seamus, he'll make sure all is well
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But your constitution must be strong, for the chess club meeting at the York Ho-tel