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John McCormack - Wearing Of The Green (1912)

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Oh! Paddy, dear, and did you hear
The news that's going round,
The shamrock is by law forbid
To grow on Irish ground.

No more Saint Patrick's Day we'll keep
His color can't be seen
For they made a law against
The wearing of the green.

Oh I met with Napper Tandy
And he took me by the hand
And he said "How's poor old Ireland?
And how does she stand?"

She's the most distressful country
That ever yet was seen
For they're hanging men and women there
For wearing of the green.

Then if the color we must wear
Is England's cruel red
Let it remind us of the blood
Old Ireland has shed

You may take the shamrock from your Heart
And throw it on the sod,
But never fear it will take root there
Tho' underfoot it's trod.

When law can stop the leaves of grass
From growing as they grow,
And when their leaves in summer time
Their color dare not show,

Then I will change the color too
I wear in my caubeen,
But till that day, thank God I'll sing
The wearing of the green.

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from Wearing of the Green, released August 3, 2018
RCA Victor (1912)

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