Jacket Blue- (Antrim) pre1909 Patrick Joyce
[Single stanza with music from Patrick Joyce's 1909 book, "Old Irish folk music and songs : a collection of 842 Irish airs and songs, hitherto unpublished" by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
R. Matteson 2017]
The Jacket Blue- collected in Antrim by Patrick Joyce, no informant or date.
"What kind of clothes does your William wear,
Or what was the colour of your William's hair?"
"Genteel he was, not at all like you,
To slight my sailor with his jacket blue."
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ABC Format
X:331
T:The Jacket Blue
B:Joyce, P. W.; "Old Irish Folk Music and Songs"
R:song
A:Antrim
O:Irish
W:"What kind of clothes does your William wear,
W: Or what was the colour of your William's hair?"
H:"Genteel he was, not at all like you,
W: For you advise me, for you advise me,
W: To slight my sailor with his jacket blue."
L:1/8
M:3/4
K:G
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