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- "The Wearing of the Green": an Irish street ballad lamenting the repression of supporters of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. It is set to an old Irish air, and many versions of the lyric exist, the best-known being by Dion Boucicault. The song proclaims that "they are hanging men and women for the wearing of the green".
- wedding on the green: from "Jenny Dang the Weaver," a traditional Scottish reel:
At Willie's wedding on the green The lassies, bonnie witches Were a' dress'd oot in aprons clean And braw white Sunday mutches
