The Wearing of the Green Song Book

THE

WEARING OF THE GREEN

SONG BOOK.

"But Heaven its own good time will give
for the Wearing of the Green."

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY PATRICK DONAHOE.
1869.

CONTENTS
	PAGE
Annie, Dear	13
A Prospect	185

Bide Your Time	14
Bouchaleen Dhown	51
Billy’s Birth-Day	60
Booker’s Run	141

Carroll Bawn	25
Carolan and Bridget Cruise	30
Charming Little Isle of the Sea	149
Clare’s Dragoons	168

Dear Old Ireland	105
Died for the Green	162
Dublin Bay	217

Emmet’s Grave	65
Eirinn’s Fenian Girls	116
Emmet	145

Fag an Bealach	17
Form, Boys, Form	77
Fineen the Rover	175
Green Plumes to Grey Jackets	11
God Bless the Green Forever	101
Go I Forget Me	103
Go where Glory Waits Thee	112
Garryowen	189
God Save Ireland	214

He said that he was not our Brother	10
Hugh of Glenurra	159

Irish Song	37
Irish Mary	45
Ireland, Our Home	143
Irish War Song	195

Kathleen Ban Adair	41
Kitty of Coleraine	73
Lament of the Ejected Irish Peasant	157
Ladle it Well	161

My Grave	24
Mollie Dear	64
Maire Donn Astoir	104
Molly Astore	206

National Hymn of Ireland	94
Nora O'Neal	216

Our Own Green Isle	76
Our Dear Native Island	97
Our Toasts	117
Our Priests	122
Old Skibbereen	208

Paddies Evermore	8
Pat Malloy	40
Paddy's Proposal	139
Patrick Sheenan	200
Patrick's Day	210

Recruiting Song of the Irish Brigade	80
Roisin Dubli	90
Rory of the Hills	190

Summer Longings	46
Song of Innisfai	50
Stanzas	59
She is Far from the Land	88
Square-Toed Boots	137
Song of the Galloping O'Hogan	151
Song of the Irish- American Brigade	152
Song for July Twelfth, 1843	181
Song from the Backwoods	198
Shells of the Ocean	218

The Wearing of the Green	1
The Croppy Boy	4
The Green above the Red	6
The Irish Wile	15
The Coulin	20
The Green Isle	22
The Rising of the Moon	27
The Irish Peasant Girl	29
The Brigade at Fontenoy	34
The Wearin' o' the Green	47
The Myrtle and Shamrock	52
The Dying Girl	53
The Bells of Shandon	55
The Wearing of the Green	57
The Blarney	58
The Leaves so Green	63
The Death of Carolan	67
The Rebel girls of Cork	70
Thiggin Thu	74
The Lost Path	79
The Memory of the Dead	82
The Men of Tipperary	85
The Old Cause	80
The Patriot Brave	89
The Irishman	92
The Boys of Kilkenny	93
The Exile of Erin	99
The Murder of Aileen Higgins	107
The Bow of Tipperary	110
The Battle Eve of the Brigade	111
The Wearing of the Green	114
The Green Flag	119
The Fenian Men	121
The Boys that Wear the Green	125
The Old Race	127
The Shan Van Vocht	128
The People’s Anthem	130
The R. C. C.	131
The Colleen Bawn	132
The Petticoat	134
The Young Enthusiast	146
The Left Eye	154
The Emigrant’s Invitation	156
The Hour before the Dawn	104
The Green and the Gold	106
The Forlorn Hope	170
The Boys of Wexford	172
The Leaves so Green	174
The Shamrock and the Lily	176
The Girl I left Behind Me	179
The Sons of Hibernia	182
The Banks of Anner	183
The Muster	187
The Irish- American	193
The People	197
The Groves of the Pool	203
Tipperary Recruiting Song	205
The Green Little Shamrock	212
Up for the Green	18
Under the Green Flag	68

Wake of William Orr	32
Why We Wear the Green	38
We've a Thousand Gen. Corcorans	72
Watch and Wait	83

Young America to Old Ireland	148

Wearing of the Green (Story)	1

Anecdotes of O’Connell:
His Encounter with Biddy Moran	21
Darby Moran	25
A Dead Man with Life in Him	26
A Young Judge Done	28
O’Connell and a Snarling Attorney	30
A Political Hurrah at a Funeral	32

This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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