According to the song, the unicorn was not a fantasy, but a creature that literally missed the boat by not boarding the Ark in time to be saved from the ‘Great Flood’ described in the Bible. They are said to be the loveliest of all animals.
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I dedicate today’s song to my good neighbour, Veron’ who is the ‘good wife’ to my good friend and allotment neighbour, Brian Moorehouse. Veron’ (whose Irish blood is green to the core) tells me that her Irish grandfather was the first person ever to see this wonderful creature.
It was reported to have been one Saturday night(or to be more precise at 2.30am Sunday morning) after a cracking night’s session in Murphy’s Pub, followed by a private ‘wake party’. Veron’ tells me that her grandfather had drunk six pints of Guinness and thirteen bottles of porter and had slumped over the bar. He was out for the count and Paddy Flaherty, the pub owner tried to usher the drunken man out of the door. Veron’ grandfather seemingly got his second wind while being pushed towards the door and into the street and fought his way back to his bar stool. He refused to go home and let Paddy Flaherty lock up his premises until he was served with another pint of Guinness. Paddy reluctantly agreed and pushed Veron’s grandfather through the pub door, slammed it shut and bolted it before his drunken patron could get back up off his arse as he lay in the road.
The bottom line is that the drunken man managed to get home, thanks to a passing unicorn whose back he rode home on. When he told his wife and neighbours the following day that he’d ridden a unicorn home from Flaherty’s Pub the previous night, this incredible first encounter any man had ever experienced with this marvellous creature was written up in the parish newsletter.
A few of the sceptics accused Veron’s grandfather of deceit, some non-believers charged him with blind drunkenness, and there were three villagers who swore it was Farmer Neven’s white Shire horse that the drunk rode home on! Most, however, accepted the account of Veron’s grandfather as being Gospel.
The strange thing is though, from all the people who have claimed to have seen a unicorn since the first sighting was reported by Veron's grandfather, and the ones who claim that unicorns are mythical and don’t exist, there is one major difference. The only people to have seen a unicorn has been Irish people!
Love and peace Bill xxx