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St. Patrick's Day in Nashville
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March 2005
As soon as more information is available on the 2005 parade, it
will be posted here. Meanwhile, see See
photos of the St. Patrick's Day Parade from last year (Sunday,
Mar. 14, 2004).
St. Patrick's Day in Nashville offers an incentive to visit Mulligan's
Pub on Second Avenue and celebrate the occasion with Sportin'
Paddy, the talented group of musicians who render their Irish
ballads and drinking songs better than perhaps anyone else in Nashville.
Wednesday night will be jam packed at Mulligan's, so you may want
to check out other Nashville Brew Pubs.
Tribute to the Irish
Southerners have an affinity for the Irish, probably because, like
Southerners, the Irish have a way with words and a knack for story-telling.
Irish writers like W. B. Yeats and James Joyce rank among the great
20th century masters of literature. In homage to the Irish's love
of words, here is a charming poem by Yeats you can memorize and
recite to your sweetheart as you toast the dear one:
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Brown Penny
I whispered, "I am too young."
And then, "I am old enough";
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
"Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair."
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it soon.
W. B. Yeats
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