The Song That Reaches Irish Hearts

. . . The Wearing of the Green
A popular song from 1911.
Words by Bartley Costello.
Music by Albert Von Tilzer.

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. There’s a song that ev’ry Irish man
   And woman loves the best
   Sure ’tis not sung by Caruso
   Tettrazini nor the rest
   But it’s sung right straight out from the heart
   By Sons of Erin’s Isle
   It’s a song that makes the tear drops start
   Across an Irish smile

Refrain
You’ll hear it at the cradle
You’ll hear it at the grave
Where ever Irish hearts are true
Beneath all flags that wave
And when ever Paddy hears it
He’ll lift his old Caubeen
It’s the song that reaches Irish hearts
The Wearing of the Green

2. Let the Germans sing their “Wacht am Rhine”
   The French the “Marseillaise”
   Let the Scotchman sing his “Auld Lang Syne”
   John Bull his Navy praise
   But a heart from Erin’s Isle will cling
   Tho’ sixty or sixteen
   And will raise his voice and proudly sing
   “The Wearing of the Green”

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Sung here by Vancha March: