Annotation:All 'Round My Hat (1)
X:1 T:All around my hat M:C L:1/8 S:Joyce - Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:G Dorian G2 AF G2 f>e|d2 c>A G>F D2|G2 A>F G2 Bc|dcBc d2 d>e|fedc f2 A>G| GBAG G>F D>E|FEFG F>G A/=B/c|d2 c>A G3z||
ALL 'ROUND MY HAT [1]. AKA and see "Come Along with Me (1)," "Green Willow." English, Irish; Air (). The song, probably English in origin, was "a Cockney parody that proved very popular from the 1820's onward and spawned many versions; the one popular in Ireland, where the hat is adorned with a tri-coloured ribbon, is a later adaptation by Peadar Kearney, referring to the Easter Rising of 1916", notes Paul de Grae[1].
With the title "Green Willow," the tune is used for an English country dance, fashioned in 1932.
All round my hat I will wear the green willow:
All round my hat for a twelvemonth and a day;
And if anyone should ask me the reason that I wear it,<br. I'll tell him that my true-love is gone far away......[P.W. Joyce].
