From the "Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem Live at Carnegie Hall" Are you ready for a war, for we are the English Are you ready for a war, for we are the English soldiers O yes we're ready for a war for we are the Irish Yes we're ready for a war for we are the Irish soldiers. Now we only have one arm.....English Now we have no arms at all...Irish Now we only have one leg...English Now we have no legs at all...Irish Now we are all dead and gone...English Now we're all alive again ...Irish. There may be more body parts that could be dispensed with in a tit for tat fashion. Pantomiming the loss of body parts, death and resurrection would provide an opportunity for lots of silliness to contrast the inherent gruesomeness of the lyrics
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