The Jackets Green march

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.

Nice one jakep, good to see this added. It’s a great march… I’m surprised I hadn’t added it previously… 😏

‘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…

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…

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…

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 :|

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).

When I was learning a few months ago I asked my teacher about this tune, he wrote out a version for me, and I did my best putting it into ABC, everything sounds right on the midi player so hopefully I did it justice.

After I changed the key signature (it still sounds the same), moved the bar lines and edited the note values of ShaneT’s version above, it now looks like this:
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
ef||g3f e2dB|A3G E2GA|B3B A3A|G6 d2|
d3B d2ef|g3f e3d|efed BABd|e6 d2|
d3B d2ef|g3f e3d|efed BABd|e4 edef|
g3f e2dB|A3G E2GA|B3B A3A|G8||

Not too different from X:3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M6HJxxPz6I&feature=share

play video

Updated the setting to reflect Jeff`s edits.
Thanks for that Jeff, that’s much better.

Luke Kelly’s version for McAlpine’s Fusiliers