Key signature: Dmajor
Submitted on July 5th 2008 by jakep.
This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.
Also known as The Jackets Green March, McAlpine's Fusiliers.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Jackets Green, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: barndance
K: Dmaj
A2 |: d2dc B2AF | E>FED B,2DE | F2F2 E2E2 | D6 A2 |
A2F2 A2Bc | d3c B3A | BcBA FEFA | B6 A2 |
A2F2 A2Bc | d3c B3A | BcBA FEFA | B6 c2 |
d2dc B2AF | E>FED B,2DE | F2F2 E2E2 | D6 A2 :|
The Jackets Green
This is a march, not a barndance
From the playing of the Liverpool Ceili Band, who play it once in C, and then play it again in D.
# Posted on July 5th 2008 by jakep
"The Jackets Green March" ~ also played in G Major
Nice one jakep, good to see this added. It's a great march... I'm surprised I hadn't added it previously...
# Posted on July 5th 2008 by ceolachan
Barndance ~ a reasonable category for 4/4 marches
'Barndance' is a good category for it, marches coming in so many different time signatures and there being no seperate category for them here. Marches are used for dance too, dances that are in the same style as barndances / schottisches / Germans...
# Posted on July 5th 2008 by ceolachan
"The Jackets Green March" ~ a take in G with other possibilities
X: 2
T: Jackets Green, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: march
K: Gmaj
|: d/e/f |\
g2 gf e2 dB | A>B AG E2 GA | B2 G/A/B A3 G | G6 Bc |
d2 B2 d2 ef | g2 gf e2 ed | e>f ed B^A Bd | e6 d^c |
d2 B2 d2 d/e/f | g3 f e3 d | ef ed B2 G/B/d | e6 f2 |
g3 f e2 dB | A3 G E2 GA | B>^A BG E2 D<F | G6 :|
It has been a regular practice for a march to be played in a set where the only change is switching keys, between D & G being very common... It can go either way and can return on itself as well, for example starting by plying it in D a few times, then making the switch to G, and them back to D again ~ just one possibility...
# Posted on July 6th 2008 by ceolachan
"The Jackets Green March" ~ another take in G from the late Mick Clancy
The following ABCs has been very slightly edited to make it easier to compare it to the two previous transcriptions...
X: 3
T: Jackets Green
C: Traditional
O: Mick Clancy
A: North Leitrim
Q: 120
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|: ef |\
g3 f e2 dB | A2 G2 E2 GA |B2 BG A2 A2 | G6 B2 |
d3 B d2 ef |g3 f e2 d2 |e3/2f/ ed BA Bd | e6 B2 |
d3 B d2 ef |g3 f e2 d2 |e3/2f/ ed BA Bd | e6 ef |
ga gf e2 dB |A3/2B/ AG E2 GA | B2 BG A2 A2 |G6 :|
Source:
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/homepage.eircom.net/collection.abc
These tunes are those I learned from the late Mick Clancy who held music classes in Manorhamilton in the 1970s/80s. Mick spent a great deal of his later years collecting tunes which he learned at sessions or heard recorded. He was especially interested in reels of which he had over a thousand noted down.
This collection is now I believe in the possession of the Coleman Heritage Centre of Irish Music in Gurteen, Co. Sligo.
The Coleman Irish Music Centre
http://www.colemanirishmusic.com/
This file is orginally from:
~ www.manorhamilton.net/ ~ audio/collection.abc
c: This is no longer a live site…
# Posted on July 6th 2008 by ceolachan
"Jackets Green" ~ Mick Clancy, Sorry, I'd cut & pasted the wrong trnscript
X: 3
T: Jackets Green
C: Traditional
O: Mick Clancy
A: North Leitrim
Q: 120
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
|: ef |\
g3 f e2 dB | A2 G2 E2 GA | B2 BG A2 A2 | G6 B2 |
d3 B d2 ef | g3 f e2 d2 | e>f ed BA Bd | e6 B2 |
d3 B d2 ef | g3 f e2 d2 | e>f ed BA Bd | e6 ef |
ga gf e2 dB | A>B AG E2 GA | B2 BG A2 A2 | G6 :|
# Posted on July 6th 2008 by ceolachan
"Jackets Green" ~ Fiddler's Companion, Andrew Kuntz
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/JA_JACKS.htm
JACKETS GREEN, THE. Irish, Air and March (2/4 time). G Major (Mulvihill): D Major (Miller & Perron). Standard tuning. One part. Words to the song were written by Michael Scanlon (1836-1900), who also wrote "Bold Fenian men" and "Limerick is beautiful."
***
Oh Ireland! Sad is thy lonely soul, and loud beats the winter sea,
But sadder and higher the wild waves roll from the hearts that break for thee.
Yet grief shall come to our heartless foes, and their thrones in the dust be seen,
But Irish maids love none but those who wear the jackets green.
***
Sources for notated versions: Liverpool Ceili Band & Liam Greenall (Liverpool, England) [Mulvihill]; Mary O’Hara [Miller & Perron]. Miller & Perron (Irish Traditional Fiddle Music), 2nd Edition, 2006; pg. 141. Mulvihill (1st Collection), 1986; No. 4, pg. 103. Tradition TLP-1024, Mary O’Hara – “Songs of Ireland” (1958).
# Posted on July 6th 2008 by ceolachan