As a teenager I first came across the song when it had these words, from the time of the Stuart monarchs:-

Say brother Teague hast heard the decree?
Ireland shall have a new deputy.

Ho by the Tyburn is the Talbote
And he shall cut the Englishman's throat.

There was an old prophesy found in a bog
Ireland shall be ruled by an ass and a dog.

Now is the prophesy come to pass
For Talbote's the dog and James is the ass.

I found it most amusing, because Lillibulero was the signature tune played on the radio before the news on the World Service of the BBC.

@Petter
Interval signals world wide radios- [en.m.wikipedia.org]
The BBC lillibelero signal-
[portabletubes.co.uk]
John Goss and the Cathedral Male Quartet singing-
[archive.org]