"The Orange And The Green" is an Irish

Music of Ireland

Irish Music is the generic term for music that has been created in various genres on the island of Ireland.The indigenous music of the island is termed Irish traditional music. It has remained vibrant through the 20th, and into the 21st century, despite globalizing cultural forces...

 folk song about a man whose father was a Protestant (Orange) and his mother was a Catholic (Green). It follows the man's trials as the product of religious intermarriage and how mixed up he turned out to be from such an upbringing.

This song was written by Anthony Murphy of Liverpool, England and recorded by The Irish Rovers

The Irish Rovers

The Irish Rovers is a Canadian Irish folk group created in 1963 and named after the traditional song "The Irish Rover". The group is best known for their international television series, and renditions of traditional Irish drinking songs, as well as early hits, Shel Silverstein's "The Unicorn",...

, The Wolfe Tones

Wolfe Tones

The Wolfe Tones are an Irish rebel music band who incorporate elements of Irish traditional music in their songs. They are named after the Irish rebel and patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double entendre that a wolf tone is a spurious sound...

, and more recently by the Brobdingnagian Bards

Brobdingnagian Bards

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 and The Kreellers. It is sung to the same tune as The Wearing of the Green

The Wearing of the Green

"The Wearing of the Green" is an anonymously-penned Irish street ballad dating to 1798. The context of the song is the repression around the time of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Wearing a shamrock in the "caubeen" was a sign of rebellion and green was the colour of the Society of the United...

. It may also be named The Biggest Mix-Up.