Guitar: Jackets Green (Including lyrics and chords)

This request is for Shaun, (rebelbhoy1888), who asks for Jacket Green, a song written by William Scanlon. The Sarsfield mentioned in the song was Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan who had supported the Catholic King James II and fought against King William. It was not until after the Battle of the Boyne (1 July 1690), and during the Siege of Limerick (1690), that Sarsfield became prominent as a leader. His capture of a convoy of military stores and artillery at Ballyneety, near Pallasgreen between Limerick and Tipperary, in a raid apparently guided by a rapparee known as "Galloping" O'Hogan, delayed the siege of the town until the winter rains forced the English to retire.
This achievement made him the popular hero of the war with the Irish. His generosity, his courage and his commanding height, had already commended him to the affection of the Irish. When the cause of King James was ruined in Ireland, Sarsfield arranged the Treaty of Limerick and sailed to France on 22 December 1691, with many of his countrymen who entered the French service in what is known as the Flight of the Wild Geese.

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Education

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• Jackets
• Green
• threelegsoman
• William
• Scanlon
• Irish
• Rebel
• Song
• Lyrics
• Chords
• Acoustic
• Guitar
• Strumming

[corporateCoffee]

great work

[TopperRocker]

@C3MC2 huh?

[C3MC2]

Very nice song but stuff like this and stuff like "The Sash" from the other side tend to romanticise sectarianism.

[rebelbhoy1888]

I love all kinds of music but there is something touching about irish songs of the struggle.. Bob Dylan would have loved to have penned some of these songs.

Thats how good they are.

[rebelbhoy1888]

Simply Awesome