The Sash @ Trooping The Colour-16/06/2012.

The Band of the Irish Guards playing a medley including the sash during the Trooping of the Colour.

[@rockinbillyboy]

Be proud of the Irish guards lads, no matter which tune they play...they are proud Irishmen of both Protestant and Roman Catholic religions....they fight side by side, and die side by side...be proud of 'Micks'

[@TheBlaert]

A proud Roman Catholic wouldn't stand with anyone who plays the Sash. You do know what Orangeism represents, and what it thinks of Catholicism?

[@rockinbillyboy]

@@TheBlaert A Scottish court ruled some years ago on a man accused of singing a "sectarian song"....The Sash. They found that the song was NOT sectarian in any way, and was a simple folk song. You should read the words of it some time...honestly, you won't melt.

[@TheBlaert]

@@rockinbillyboy Avoiding the question eh Billy?

[@edcarson3113]

​@@TheBlaertyou mean a bitter roman catholic.

[@TheBlaert]

@@edcarson3113 that's a well thought out and witty reply there hun...

[@jh-ge6mm]

Abs brilliant.....Can you believe the :Queens guards still play 'The Sash' ....Fair play to our Royal Family ....We Are The People ....No Surrender

[@Richard500]

The tune of "The Sash" was well-known around Europe, and before the lyrics were added, it was a love song that lamented division between people. Instead of "it was old and it was beautiful", the lyrics were "she was young and she was beautiful" and is in Broadside Ballads (1787), titled "Irish Molly O".

[@amandalyons1719]

Only ones in her Kingdom 100% behind her Richard 😍

[@amandalyons1719]

@@Richard500 shhhhhhh

[@normanhewitt9345]

@@amandalyons1719 wee Amanda baby you are so right the minstel cenotaph kick off

[@alexanderyoung3220]

They can join the orange

[@leggie65]

That's me back again to hear the "Sash my Father wore"and seeing the Guards swagger the day away "UP THE MICKS"🇬🇧

[@lfcrfcni]

Brilliant to see the Irish Guards embracing and showing off their culture. Shows what a great tune The Sash is. No Surrender!

[@johnnykerr4893]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧😎👌

[@whitedawg1984]

Class!! So proud to serve with my 2 brothers in the forces. WATP

[@truefalse207]

"WATP" patter doesn't exist in the army, you'll get kicked out.

[@djwa3]

truefalse You've clearly never been on tour around the 12th then buddy.

[@mick1919]

Inbred

[@madscottishmtber2093]

Couldnt serve you're dinner 😂👏

[@The_Unintelligent_Speculator]

Chris semi Served your maw

[@ulsterpatriot1420]

I was there that day. Walked with the Orange Order through central London a couple of hours later to honour the Queen!

[@Mugdorna]

Did you have a fleg?

[@joelmontgomery919]

@@Mugdorna he had his PRIDE

[@BeastyLewisHD]

I was there as well, an orangemen loyalist born and raised in Anglesey North Wales🔴⚪🔵🇬🇧

[@ulsterpatriot1420]

@@BeastyLewisHD Good to hear Brother! Some turnout that day. Met Brethren from USA, Canada, Australia that day prior to the start of parade. We walked with Co Antrim Brethren and were led by Blackskull FB from Glasgow! A great day and one I'll remember forever! GSTQ

[@ulsterpatriot1420]

@@BeastyLewisHD Great to see Orangemen from your neck of the woods Bro! Great turnout that day from all our mainland Brothers and Sisters ! I'm also in the Royal Black and the App. Boys!

[@deanodog3667]

As an irish catholic i believe orangism is an integral part of irish culture, i think its great that they played minstrel boy and the sash back to back !

[@stephenbrownlee1]

proud to have been there and loved it God bless the Royal Irish.

[@ulsterpatriot1420]

Was a great day ! Watched the Trooping and then walked with the Orange through Central London that afternoon!

[@cambuslang]

How wonderful for the Queens Band to acknowledge The "Sash"

[@tommyteapot13]

@@robholloway6829 "God bless the prince of Wales" is the same tune as Derry's Walls, not The Sash

[@seantighe7672]

A lot of you seem to have missed the Minstrel Boy (written to commemorate the conflict in 1798) before the Sash and the number of Irishmen from the Free State and Republic who have served in the Irish Guards. It's a musical nod to both communities.

[@alistairthompson8311]

+Sean Tighe Yes, as far as I know, that sort of behaviour is in the nature of the Irish Guards & the Royal Irish Regiment.

[@eddryan9404]

Sean Tighe wise the fuk up.. 1688 seige of londonderry.. No surrender.. 1690 boyne King william of orange... dublin/ nothing... 0 gate way for forinen employment!..

[@seantighe7672]

Listen here you ignorant tool. I was making a historical point. I'm a British citizen. My father proudly served in the Inniskilling Dragoons and literally put his life kn the line to protect the people of Ulster like you. Perhaps he shouldn't have bothered of you're anything to go by.

[@amandalyons1719]

would you lot behave tut op banners over and we're trying to get our lives together 😕

[@GaraGambini]

Sean Tighe Before the Sash? The Orange Order was formed in 1795, three years before the United Irishmen and the song, duh.

[@transportandmorevide801]

Everytime I hear the sash being played it makes me so proud to be British

[@blacky1987]

Yeah cause those dutch men really bought into red white and blue 😂

[@Mugdorna]

As an Ulsterman and and Irish Nationalist I happen to enjoy The Sash. Its a good tune

[@blacky1987]

@MsMissy lol

[@blacky1987]

@MsMissy youd be feeling really fucking stupid when you know my job 🤣

[@blacky1987]

@MsMissy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davidinchester]

great to hear "The Sash" in London, after all, it is a song sung by her Majesty's most loyal citizens!

[@gerv55]

Pack of window lickers you mean.

[@aviationnow5103]

gerv55 no, we are not poor like yous

[@DMelon1]

@@gerv55 the famine

[@gerv55]

@@aviationnow5103 that almost made sense.

[@gerv55]

@@DMelon1 what about it?

[@MrBallymena1]

FYI - and I can vouch for this - The Irish regiments always play the two tunes together - Minstrel Boy and The Sash - always together and recognising the two communities where their roots are and then becoming one marvellous outfit - faugh a ball aghball agh

[@jameswhelan1162]

MrBallymena1 mmmm

[@williamwallace2278]

They play Wearing Of The Green as well and quiet rightly so. Never forget the first man to join the Irish Guards was an Irishman! Not a plastic paddy planter

[@edcarson3113]

@@williamwallace2278 Ulstermen were never paddy’s

[@willfoster2635]

@@williamwallace2278 And Planters are not plastic Paddys.

[@jameswebb8273]

Political correctness demands. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJTJgXSVgbmgpMk

[@gangman618]

I actually cant believe they played the sash at all, at an army parade never mind trooping the colour its great to see . No surrender

[@petesy03]

David Black surrender to who??

[@GreenCocanix]

@@petesy03 NO SURRENDER TO THE SCUM

[@petesy03]

CITY LOYAL MCFC who’s the SCUM??

[@GreenCocanix]

@@petesy03 the IRA the nazis the EU anyone who means harm to Britannia and its allies

[@petesy03]

CITY LOYAL MCFC well I think Britannia has done more harm to Britannia than all of these combined, do you?

[@wesleywhyte1486]

The first tune is Minstrel Boy followed by The Sash a nice balance I think

[@jackthompson6285]

the first tune which is heard at the very start isn't Minstrel boy at all

[@RicTic66]

@Dherynia Flaharta They're the Irish guards for fecks sake, what do you expect them to play Masai war chants? Jayzus stop conforming to the stereotype.

[@RicTic66]

@Dherynia Flaharta Butchers apron? Regularly voted the prettiest flag by those who like that sort of thing. Ireland had the chance of choosing a pretty flag in 1922 and what did they do? Decided to use a washed out Italian tricolour. And yes whether or not your arse likes it they are the Irish guards made up of Protestant and Catholics from North and South of the border and those who have no religion. I've never killed anyone nor has anyone I know we love the peace I hope you do too?

[@RicTic66]

@Dherynia Flaharta There have always been men & women who choose to practice war. IRA, INLA, UDA, UFF, Irish Free State, Irish Republic, Black & Tans, British, French, German, American, Russian soldiers ect ect. All had or have killed many many innocent men women and children between them. I see no moral high ground unless you are directly killing to save your own or families life. And as for ISIS and equivalents they have no saving graces anyone who beheads kind selfless volunteer care workers ect deserve nothing but our upmost contempt and disgust. Bomb them back to the stone age as far as I'm concerned.

[@stevieokie1]

@@jackthompson6285 Yes it is

[@raymondmcmenemy303]

Never heard the Guards playing the Sash before . Love it. UEFA might try to ban them from Europe though.

[@infobeam1902]

Raymond McMenemy What????

[@mus256f]

😆😆

[@chiccameron3714]

Well done the Guards always superb, especially the Sash.

[@jimmclean9312]

When i was at Catholic school,one of the nuns, Sister Terasita, used to say," Sure, it's a shame that the Prods have all the best tunes !"

[@leggie65]

😂 Nice story bud.

[@jameswebb8273]

I doubt it.

[@mac6460]

The Minstrel boy followed by the Sash my father wore, because we,re not bigots we,re the Irish Guards.......Quis Separabit.

[@willfoster2635]

To the Mad Micks - THE MICKS ARE HERE

[@normanhewitt9345]

Well said bid man minstrel boy and thad sash bravo

[@normanhewitt9345]

Belfast men to the wars bravo were all Irish 62

[@normanhewitt9345]

Qui separabit

[@alexbrown6624]

Historic music that is part of British & Irish ☘️ history time has moved on and most people are glad it has but lest we forget and say never again we can’t say that it never took place nor should we ?

[@nicoinchaser8895]

Would love to see these boys march on the 12th of July in Belfast.. front row Woodvale road 2021 sash blasting 👍. NO SURRENDER 🇬🇧🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@leggie65]

NO SURRENDER FROM LOYALIST EAST GLASGOW 🇬🇧.

[@nicoinchaser8895]

@@leggie65 💪🇬🇧🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👏

[@corkboy4523]

Ye won’t have to surrender after the democratic border poll results in a United ireland 😉

[@ayem8320]

Nobody does a parade quite like the British outstanding 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@mick1919]

Up there with the Ku Klux Klan

[@petesy03]

The best parade in the world is in Moscow on may 9th no where else compares to it

[@RobertK1993]

Irish ☘️ can’t beat the Irish 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@corkboy4523]

The give gay pride a run for their money

[@davidburgess5778]

Great, really Fantastic Great Traditional and touches the Soul

[@221blueron]

...and hats off to them for doing so finglaspete. Both traditional Irish folk tunes when played (and sung) in the correct manner should give no cause for concern, and that is how it should be. My own band, the pipes, drums and bugles 1RHF played the 'sash' along with the Royal Ulster Rifles pipe band on their 'Vesting' (amalgamation) parade in Gibraltar, 1st July 1968 and were proud to have taken part.

[@jrobwhydidyoutubechangemyname]

May they play it onwards into eternity

[@gaggymott9159]

Here am I a Loyal Orangeman, from Ulster's shores I came! Whoop Whoop...GO PRODS!!!

[@alanmontgomery2798]

WATP

[@klynch5156]

A Steeler! My sky ape is better than your sky ape...that sort of thing?

[@mick1919]

@George Job Is the war cry of the belfast brigade, Glory Glory to Old Ireland, Glory to the men who thought and died, beeep beep wont be fucking drumming anymore

[@james9311]

Mick get fucked

[@petesy03]

George Job surrender to who??

[@ononewheellad]

So, it’s the Sash. I’m an Irish Nationalist who one day would like to see a United Ireland. I and many many like me really don’t care that much, who plays what, who marches where. What they play is a matter of choice. I happen to think it sounds not too bad on the pipes. ☘️👍

[@wwhitelaw9286]

Well you'll know the start of it is a nationalists tune?

[@doreenbrooker4712]

Some name Irish????

[@piperstune]

A salute to all the services and the work they do..........

[@mick1919]

Big Salute to all the Armed Irish Republican Militant Groups from 800 Years ago till now. Tiocfaidh Ar La.

[@blob22201]

@@mick1919 lol I doubt there were many Irish republicans in the 13th century

[@youtubeaccount5738]

@@mick1919 IRA bastard

[@johntaylor5605]

Maura Monaghan, aged 18 months, was the youngest victim of the Omagh bomb. Known as 'Mossie' by her family, she was buried in a tiny white coffin, along side her mother, Avril Monaghan, and her two unborn twin siblings

[@leggie65]

The police know who placed those car bombs but the crackpot government in power at the time gave get out of jail free cards to the murdering scum they will never be brought to justice.

[@northernirelandsurvivalist4718]

makes you proud doesn't it. No Surrender

[@rebeccaallan9136]

Yeah

[@eddryan9404]

Northern Ireland survivalist NO SURRENDER ✋

[@bettyswollocks7683]

Edd Ryan fuck you'd, UP THE RA!!!

[@samcrawford6695]

Tom Hunter are you being fucking serious yous dirty fenians can't seem to watch a video that displays the union flag without commenting up the ra or something. NO SURRENDER🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@jovovichnik]

You mean, up MI6's fake terror group designed to suck you all into the peace process.

[@bugler75]

Northern Ireland has an army, the British Army, We are part of the U.K. Faugh a Ballagh!

[@beano3868]

And that's why we're the United Kingdom,northern island,Scotland ,Wales and England

[@Prodboy1690]

Diffrent class Rule Britannia No Surrender!

[@quarantine458]

God save the queen

[@Jake-fu3by]

Prodboy1690 that's a beautiful profile picture mate

[@mick1919]

Not really its pretty shit lets be honest

[@johnoriordan7419]

No surrender to who nobody wants fuck all to do with you.

[@RobertK1993]

John O Riordan Ulster Protestants need to feel superior to their Roman Catholic neighbours they have an inferiority complex.

[@pureloyalist5077]

Brilliant guys THE SASH, KING AND COUNTRY

[@rods595]

God Bless them !! Brilliant

[@davie7967]

Just pure class British soldiers on the march

[@daveglynn4599]

Great tunes and great display. The British army’s the best in the world!

[@delmoon5491]

RESPECT

[@BillyBob-cs4dv]

Its the ROYAL Irish guards from ULSTER.. Of course they will play the sash..👍✋

[@irishtrapper9149]

Billy Bob Some are from the South.

[@williamwallace2278]

They play both! Wearing Of The Green & Sash.

[@HappySerafim]

They aren't just from Ulster, down firm the south and a lot from Liverpool and London. They also aren't called the Royal Irish, that's a separate regiment entirely.

[@amandalyons1719]

@@HappySerafim you do no Ulster has 3 counties in the South don't you please tell me you no that 🤔

[@HappySerafim]

@@amandalyons1719 aye, I do, ask the original poster, he was the first to say Ulster.

[@grooverheliboy]

As do 90% of the ENGLISH We will be so glad to see the back of you !!

[@coraclejim]

"MINSTREL BOY " and "THE SASH" together. All hail the Paddy's and the Billy boys.

[@RonBurgundy-uw6nu]

No Surrender......... God save the Queen, God bless her soul

[@craigguild5579]

Loud and Proud 📣 🔴⚪🔵 😃🔶🔷

[@Andy-df4id]

Love the way the lassie from Belfast got it before it started, the queen at the time must have liked it lol

[@davidinchester]

wasn't it great to see the sash played in London?

[@dessy76]

Not really.

[@joshblack1868]

Amazing

[@Manasses1961]

Its actually a song titled "The hat my Father wore", written in memory of a son to his Father at the St Patricks day Parade in New York, late 1800s.

[@leggie65]

Would like to see the words to the hat my father wore surely it can't start"sure its old but it is beautiful and its colours they are fine lol".

[@robertmeaney3238]

What a load of balls it’s a balled written in ulster telling of William 3rd victory against his father in law James 2nd at the river boyne few other battles in there too it was sung before the 1800s numpty lol 😂

[@elliotvernon7971]

The tune for both ‘the Hat my father wore’ and ‘the Sash my father wore’ is a popular 18th century Scots/Irish ballad ‘My Irish Molly O’ about a Glaswegian lad rejected by an Irish girl - the lyrics include ‘She is young and she is beautiful and her likes I've never known’. The American Irish hat song and the Ulster boys sash song both adapted the old Molly ballad for their own purposes.

[@janetwilson6069]

Minstrel Boy. One of the first tunes I played as a piper in D coy the North Irish Militia. The other was Gary Owen at 120 paces a minute. Bit of a challenge for a beginner ! Mikey.

[@johntaylor5605]

Sean McLaughlin was a 12 year old schoolboy from Knockalla Drive, Buncrana. He had been in Omagh with some Spanish schoolchildren on an exchange trip. Sean was killed alongside his friends, Oran Doherty and James Barker.

[@iaincrooks7889]

Was there, amazing parade, no surrender!!

[@maxcrawford7957]

The sash my father wore 👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@michaelking9772]

Nothing unusual about this , Irishmen playing a good Old Tune, when they're Marching they're not fighting.!!!!

[@jamesalexander4926]

I Love the sash WATP

[@allantg1]

pure class

[@billbo2117]

Brilliant 👏 👏 👏 No Surrender 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

[@davie7967]

Great stuff from the Irish guards liked the swagger when they played the Sash

[@boabydarin]

Fantastic

[@johnbarnes5237]

Ken Frazer, former pipe major of the 1st Irish Guards, told me they call this one "the political set." During the Troubles, they had to be careful not to play it during times of political tension in NI or the rest of the UK.

[@jameswebb8273]

Yes, political correctness had already reared its ugly head.

[@normanconnor]

Lovely wee tune

[@amcmenemy5647]

Simply the Best.

[@sheehancfc]

Would the sash not be played to represent both sides of the community? The first song was an old rebel song called the minstrel boy, so the band played the sash to be representative to everyone

[@mccoy79productions66]

Awesome share my friend!

[@SCurrans]

Got 2 love our arm'd forces, even playin' the sash as well Gd show boys

[@jamesanderson8377]

Brilliant

[@Channelgone-g6p]

Fantastic, british tunes we love.

[@corkboy4523]

Except they’re both irish😆

[@grahammurphy2682]

no surrender ever god bless the irish guards

[@corkboy4523]

Loving your very Irish surname 😁

[@grahammurphy2682]

​@@corkboy4523 I'm of ulster Scott ancestry

[@corkboy4523]

@@grahammurphy2682 but with an Irish surname? 🤔 But I suppose ulster is in Ireland so fair enough😁

[@rustledjammies8769]

Interesting how the traditionally Catholic regiment is playing a song associated with Protestants, especially being played immediately after Minstrel Boy, a song associated with Irish nationalism and considered a rebel song!

[@johntaylor5605]

Rocio Abad Ramos, a 23 year old Spanish woman, loved Ireland. She had almost finished a degree in biology in Spain, but had also been involved in exchange-trips between Spanish and Irish school children.... James Barker was a 12 year old schoolboy from Ballintrae, Buncrana in county Donegal. His mother, who is Irish, is married to an English man. They moved to Buncrana in 1997 in order to get a better quality of life.

[@WASP75]

Glad to here our wee sash tune in london

[@tamyoung69]

The song is called "Derry's walls" that is sung to the same tune as "God bless the prince of Wales".

[@Dingo-1]

Nope it's the sash my father wore Heard it from birth mate

[@tamyoung69]

@@Dingo-1 i was getting mixed up with another song but tbh although most scots and orangemen will know it as the sash. I know from personal experience that the irish guards band refer to this song as Irish Molly O here's a link to a cover of the original song for you. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWGnqX2Ena6Dg9k

[@md0u9186]

Well done the Irish Guards!

[@aliasbernard-henri2085]

Magnifique,les Irlandais, anglais,les écossais,les gallois la grosse classe

[@frasermclean1]

here i am a loyal orangeman just come across the sea< for singing and for dancing i hope that i will please thee

[@robertfelton1521]

Ulster for ever,no surrender!

[@computerrage]

Eloquence always wins through!

[@sticksjnr09]

All foot guards within the Household Division have the same basic uniform, scarlet tunics etc. Each regiment is denoted by the plume in the bearskin, and number of buttons in groups on the tunics. Coldstream have a red plume in their bearskins with buttons in groups of 2, Irish Guards have a blue plume in their bearskins with buttons in groups of 4.

[@Jungleloyalscouse]

Excellent.

[@frarfclin7736]

Brilliant Surprise 🤗

[@mindyourownbusinessfatty]

Best wishes on the twelfth, it was old but it was beautiful.

[@nigelkavanagh2048]

Class!!

[@sidburgess8781]

God Bless the Irish

[@seandoherty1239]

No that was the Sash. God save the Prince of Wales is the tune to Derrys walls. The sash is the the Sash.

[@spursyjack2700]

*Londonderry*

[@Emerald007007]

I don't have a particular musical ear but at least the first part of that music is The Minstrel Boy which is a song Written By Thomas Moore while he was at trinity college, about the Irish who were killed at the 1798 rebellion

[@TelfordO]

I am Scottish But love being British first,

[@johncodling9805]

the 2nd song is the sash

[@petshopboy827]

Done that many times lol 😆

[@Heisenberg33]

I disagree with the concept of a royal family, not whether they represent value for money. I am happy to pay taxes, higher taxes even, so long as they are spent on services for the people and not the establishment. This debate will rage on for many years i'm afraid. Whether Scots will get the chance to vote on the subject is the real concern for me.

[@deanodog3667]

The minstrel boy , what a tune ?!

[@amacksplatoon]

The sash starts at 0:46

[@Ceiliwhistler]

The two tunes heard being played here are firstly 'The Minstrel Boy' followed by 'The Sash'. There may be a bit of confusion because the second tune is known as 'The Sash' in Northern Ireland but could be known by another name elsewhere in Ireland (as are many traditional songs/tunes).

[@alanmontgomery2798]

sorry mate, but the Sash is the Sash and is not known by anything else, WATP, No Surrender

[@2001weejimmyM2001]

alan montgomery actually the sash is an English folk song and many prod songs are from different military marches or trad music. Like derrys walls being God bless the prince of Wales

[@tothill]

One of only a few things left to make you proud to be british

[@LordWellington15]

Lovin' it :D

[@andrewwalker1213]

God bless the prince of Wales is a totally different tune to the sash Derris walls is the same as "

[@audspod1]

The Sash played in London wow!!

[@traoresfan208isback8]

Me And The Boys marching to Reclaim Falls Road for the Loyalists:

[@timmythetim7128]

You'll be marching back to britian soon when ulster comes back home to ireland EIRE 32

[@dpmawn]

The first tune was Kelly, the Boy from Killarney, then the Minstrel Boy, then the Sash!

[@willfoster2635]

0.47 in - Christ!! I never haha. Nice to hear and nice to know.

[@wwhitelaw9286]

Yassss

[@jamiedodger195]

Tune at the beginning is an irish tune called Minstral boy...

[@ahmedzakwani1507]

🎉❤❤❤❤🎉 Great music.

[@blueger5551]

Amazing 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧