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Show "WEARING OF THEGREEN' ' A FAMOUS IRISH SONG Oil. PaMy, dear, and did yon hear iht news Hint's Pm' round. The shamrock is forlnM. by law. lo grow on Irish irnmnd ; Si. Patrick's Day no more we'll keep, his colors can 'I he seen. For there's a Moody law arin' the Wearing of t (Jreen; I met with Xnpper Tandy jmd lie Ink me hy the hand. .And he snid: "How's poor onld Jit-limd, niVi how does she stJind?" SIh-'s tlw most ditrrssfn) country Hint ever vf;i have seen; They're hanging inon and women there for th" Wearing of tlie Green." Then since the color must wear is Knjrland's cruel red. Sure Ireland's sons will ne'er forget the blood that they have shed ; You may take the shamrock from your hut and onr,r it on the sod. Rut 'twill take root ;iud flourish still, tho' under foot t is trod; When the law can stop the blades of grass from growing as they grow. Ami when the haves in summer-time their verdure dare not show . Then 1 will change the color I wear in my ennheni. Rut till that day. please fjod. I'll stick to Wearing of the Green. Rut if at last our color should be torn from Ireland's heart. Her sons with shame and sorrow from the dear old soil will part ; I'e heard wrispers of a country lhat lies bryant the say. When'1 rich and poor stand eipial. in the lijjlit of freedom's day; h. Erin, must we lenv you. driven by the I mint's hand. .Must we ask a mother's welcome from a strange but happy land' Where the cruel cross of England's thraldom never shall be seen. And where, thank God, we'll live and die, still Wearing of the Green. To all clastcs of the Iri&li race there is no song more dear than "The Wearing of the Green." On SL Patrick's Pat-rick's Day, March 17, the day of the j Shamrock, on the buttonhole nearest tiio henrt, is carried the national cm-1 cm-1 l.lom, and on the Hps of all true 1 Irishmen, at some time during the dav, arc repeated the words oi tho song as (he late Irish act'.r. Dln Poucicault. arrnriKcd t.hem trom a song of probably several generations earlier, the author of the original or which no one lia3 e-r been able to learn. A .song Is the song of a nation only when it is a fiorg men ring when tliey fare death, or for the singly j i which they are willing to risk lm- j prisonment. There is no method in the musical madnesa of fighting men. Thij has bpen demonstrated in tho spirited French "Marseillaise" In a lilting quickstep, minimally worthless and fitted with any words such a "Yankee D x.dle" and "Dixie," or In a solemn hymn sucli as "Kin Fectf Burg." In the trenches of the Crimea the song was "Annie Laurie." In tnej trenches of Cuba It was "A Hot Time In the Obi Town Tonight." There I was in more reicon for the lads freia Kent and Yorkshire to choose a Scotch love song for their "hvmn bo- ! fore action" than for Yankee beys to discard their national airs lor a ragtime rag-time tune but they did. So there can be no argument whv hishmen from one end of the we) I I to the other are stirred by "The Wearing of the Circcn," as they are by no other earthly sounds, rich as their Mother Land is In rival melo-! melo-! dies. It has a proud history this old song which once brought forth a royal prescript against its being simg In the British lomalns. I-ng before be-fore that eventful singing It sent men to tho scaffold because It sm-bolized sm-bolized a patriotism that was the assurance of death. Prison vras the penally, down almost to the present dav. Yet men never ceare to sing it." The rolgin of "The Wearing of the Green'" Is not easy to trace. The well-known Welsh chronicles of the j Eisteildl'ed furnish n clev to tho genealogy of most nf tho old songs i o' England and Scotland, as well ?.s thoio of Wales. P.ut the beginnings j of Irish melodies are lnt in tho haze of traditions thrt mcige into folklore. folk-lore. Antiquarians are of the opinion that at first the tunc was a "keea" - the hereditary funeral song of one of the roval houses of the island be- and how does she stand?" and to thU he is given reply- "Tis u poor (lis tressed counthe-iv. oh, poor I-ar-land." Mr. Houclcault. It Is said, was given giv-en tho Idea for rewriting tho song by bit mother, but she was only able to remember tho first four lines. All the rest Is original with Bonci-er.ult. Bonci-er.ult. Nor is this the only song he adapte d In I he same w ay. The old-time old-time popular song. "Pat Malloy." was also written by him to an old lrlsa air. Mr. rbjucicault was born in Dublin oa December 2, 1S22. Ho was educated edu-cated partly in that cltv, and partly at tho Loudon University, and be came connected with the dramatic profession In the year 1841, as author of 'Ixmdon Assurance.' 'a play first performed at Covent Garden Theater on March 4 of that year. Mr. Houclcault Houcl-cault did not make his stage debut until Monday. June H, lSt2, In a play written by himself, entitled "Th? Vampire." In 1843 became to America Ameri-ca for tho first time,- and made his appearance In "Tbc Fox Hunt" at Wallack's theater. . Ho returned home two years later. In 1S6 an wrote and produced In .London hia famous play "The Colleen Pawn." He came to America to reside permanently per-manently In STfi. and took up his residence in New York city, where he died on September IS, 1890. James Napper Tanilv, the IHuh ari-tator, ari-tator, retetred to ii the song, was born in Dublin In l"4 and died in that city In ISii::, During the American Amer-ican Re.vii!utlon hj took an active part in the effort fo prevent the use of KnRllsh goods In Ireland; was an enthusiast In the "volunteer movement." move-ment." en May 27. 17F2, commanded command-ed the corps of artillery that guarded guard-ed the approaches to receive the answer ans-wer of the ministry to tho demand lor legislative independence, and was one of tho foremost In the volunteer convention of November, 1TSX Ten vears afterwards when Xnpper Tandy was about to be tried for writ-.1 writ-.1 seditions pamphlot called "Common "Com-mon Sense." he tied to tho United States. In 1 71S he went to Paris and was out in command of a vessel for on invasion: of Ireland. Ho remained re-mained on Irish soli, however, but eight hours, and then went to Her-gen Her-gen and from there by land to Hamburg Ham-burg At the latter place ho was seized and rielhereil to th English, and upon his arrival In Ireland was condemned lo death. Ti naparie, however, brought such pressure to hear in his favor that the prisoner i was released He son after went to Frfince, and was made a general of division. tore the days or cromweii e origin or-igin it is that It was a song of the camp when James made his hi peles stand. Dut the words are lost and Ii Is not until 174o that it Is found linked with stan.as tuat begin: The pikes must stand together When the mo..n is on tho green Tho present words the present song. In fact may, however, be accredited ac-credited to Dion Mourl.-anlt, th actor. ac-tor. The words- are bis. written to the ancient, melody and Introduced by blin close to fifty years ago In tlie popular Irish play "Arrah in Pogne." They are sung hy Shann J the Post. It was on the ce'iiof of Mflrcu 22. IS'"., that "The Wearing of 1lv j Green," In Its present form was fltvt j seng The plav was produced at ' the Piinccps Theater, I.omion. soon ailer CleiUenwell prison was blown up by the Frninns. There was a storm f indignation on I .ond' n, Mid Mourl-e.Milt Mourl-e.Milt s English associates and adm.r-ois adm.r-ois udi-.ed him not to sine Is. but sine it be would and did. and Ii ,il-most ,il-most caused a riot. It resulted In the Cabinet Mlnlp-teiT. Mlnlp-teiT. of ihe late Queen Victoria Is-Miliig Is-Miliig an edict prohibiting Ihe sius-iiig sius-iiig of the song in the Uritish doniin-i. doniin-i. ns. nod for years, although It thrill-el thrill-el the heart -of eer Irishman, it was never beard In public in England. Eng-land. If I'.euricauM could have lived until the Queen made her last viit to the Emerald Isle, when sh ronxn?er t.. the wearing of the shamrock, he Mould have heen. as the rovnl par-v landed from her Majesty's yncbi. iho Dragoons Fu.-iliets. and Lancers di.nvn up In full uniform to ra'vue their ruler, a Fprig of sh2iin;ck w;u oi every breast, and the Queen was greeted by the same old song. "The Wearing of the Green." In tlKse Intervening yearn the air. that seems to liold all the pathos of Ireland has been sung from ihe cables of Galway to the c-inins of Irihh regiments, fli'hl'ng Fuland':" battles from the Cape to .Ufi'aann-ton. .Ufi'aann-ton. Kipling ls tolrl in "Xanigay Doola" bow It had reached lo the mountains of Thlblet. Lovers of research of this character charac-ter have found tLat there was an old Revolutionary orct ba'lad in Ireland, In which a conversation w.v; Imagined between Ponaparte and an Irishman, In wh!e Donaparte n-ciulres: n-ciulres: "And hew is ould Ire-land, |