The Green Linnet
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Green Linnet", also known as "The Song of Sorrow" (in Gaelic "Ulachan dubh-O") is an<br> Irish air in 4/4 time and D Mixolydian.<br> Joyce (1909) writes: "Bonaparte, during his career,<br> was a favourite in Ireland; and many peasant songs were composed about him ..."<br> Some versions of these songs were printed on broadsheets by Haly of Cork in the 1840's.<br> Two verses were published by Mr. John Fitz-Gerald of Cork, in 'Account of the Old Street<br> Ballads of Cork' (1892) in the Journal of the Cork Archaeological Society.<br> In this song 'Boney' is figuratively represented, after a common Irish fashion, as a<br> Green Linnet. It is recorded in the logbook of the whaling ship Cortes in 1847 as having<br> been sung aboard ship. It has been described as "another true lament for the loss of the<br> great hope the Irish had in Napoleon".<br> It was printed in Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Song (1909). <br> It was recorded by The Chieftains on Bonaparte's Retreat.<br>
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