X:1
T:Suit of Green, The
M:2/4
L:1/8
S:Stanford/Petrie – Complete Collection (1905)
Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion
K:Eb
E/F/ | G2 G>A | BG EF | GA B{d}c | B2 Bc/d/ | ed ef/g/ |
ag fe | ed BB/{d}c/ | B2 Bc/d/ | ef gf/g/ | ag fe |
ed BG | A2 Bc | _d2 fe | dB AF | {F}E2 E>{G}F | E3 ||
SUIT OF GREEN, THE. Irish, Air (2/4 time). Ireland, County Carlow. E Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. O Boyle remarks that Denis Zimmerman, in his Irish Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs (1967), 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.
Additional notes Source for notated version : - “Set in Carlow County by Mr. Watson” [Stanford/Petrie].
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.
