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|f_annotation= | |f_annotation='''SUIT OF GREEN, THE.''' Irish, Air (2/4 time). Ireland, County Carlow. E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. O Boyle reports that Denis Zimmerman, in his '''Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs''', has called this song a "broadside romance" in which the political element (inherent in the title) is less important than the sentimental one. | ||
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|f_printed_sources= | Oh! 'twas on a Sunday morning as my love and I sat in a room | ||
Thinking it was no harm when the Army came up to the door; | |||
And with their guns they broke the door soon as my darling boy they seen, | |||
They tore him from my arms for the wearing of the Suit of Green. | |||
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|f_source_for_notated_version=“Set in Carlow County by Mr. Watson” [Stanford/Petrie]. | |||
|f_printed_sources=Ó Boyle ('''The Irish Song Tradition'''), 1976; p. 86. Stanford/Petrie ('''Complete Collection of Petrie's Irish Music'''), 1905; No. 686, p. 172. | |||
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SUIT OF GREEN, THE. Irish, Air (2/4 time). Ireland, County Carlow. E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. O Boyle reports that Denis Zimmerman, in his Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs, has called this song a "broadside romance" in which the political element (inherent in the title) is less important than the sentimental one.
Oh! 'twas on a Sunday morning as my love and I sat in a room Thinking it was no harm when the Army came up to the door; And with their guns they broke the door soon as my darling boy they seen, They tore him from my arms for the wearing of the Suit of Green.
