Barack OBama Song Dispute

The creators of the song "There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama" claim that an Irish songwriter living in the U.S. has stolen their song and made it his own.

Three Limerick brothers, Gerry, Brian and Donny Corrigan, also known as Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys, the band who originally wrote the song, are irate that the work they created back in February is now being sung by someone else, and they are receiving very little credit for it.

The band says that "There's No One As Irish As Barack O'Bama" was their brainchild created when they decided to make a spoof song out of Obama's Irish roots.

"We found out in February that Obama had origins in Moneygall, Co. Offaly so from there we thought it would be fun to make up a song about it," Gerry Corrigan told the Irish Voice.

Since February the group, headlined by Gerry Corrigan, 42, have appeared on several television and radio shows across Ireland performing their song, and it has been very well received.

"We created the song for a bit of fun," admitted Corrigan, and fun they are certainly having with it.

Launching the song on YouTube, the boys weren't long getting noticed. They even got airtime on the MSNBC show "Hardball with Chris Matthews" when 20 seconds of the song was shown.

Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys, who have been performing together for nearly 20 years, have been regular guests at events hosted by the group Americans for Obama in Moneygall, and that is where they will be again on November 4 when, according to Corrigan, Obama will be announced the next president of the U.S.

Shay Black, brother of legendary Irish singers Mary and Francis Black, contacted the Limerick brothers over the summer asking them if he could, for his summer music camp in Berkeley, California, add additional versus to their song that goes like this."O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara/There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama/From the old Blarney Stone to the green Hills of Tara/There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama."

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