One setting
T: The Green Flag
R: polka
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
|:A2A>B d2d2|e2e>f e2d2|B2g2 f>gaf|d2d>e fedB|
A2A>B d2d2|e2e>f e2d2|B2g2 f>gaf|d2d>e d4:|
|:f3g a2f2|g2f2 e2d2|f3g a2f2|g2f2 e4|
f3g a2f2|g2f2 e2d2|B2g2 f>gaf|d2d>e d4:|
Also known as The Green Flag Is Flying, The Green Flag March, Wrap The Green Flag Around Me, Wrap The Green Flag Around Me Boys.
There are 6 recordings of this tune.
The Green Flag appears in 2 other tune collections.
The Green Flag has been added to 14 tunebooks.
I learnt this from the playing of the Gallowglass Ceili Band, who called it "Wrap The Green Flag Around Me Boys", but I have posted it with its more common name. There are probably lyrics to the tune.
I ‘m pretty sure that this is a march and not a barndance, see fx. http://www.irishtune.info/tune/765/
Lyrics:
http://celtic-lyrics.com/forum/index.php?autocom=tclc&code=lyrics&id=132
Not sure if that’s the same tune though.
- called one of the "great martial airs" of Ireland. I learned it from the James Goodman collection in G, though.
—DtM
Oops, I went off on holiday without saying it was a march. Sorry, everybody.