Please forgive me, I do not say you are wrong! what I did state was, there was no weight behind your statement! Because someone makes a comment does not mean that it is correct! I only asked "Was it short for Lanarkshire?" I did not mean to offend anyone! The version I was sent, as is, the version posted above 'The Jacket of Blue' was posted to me by someone (?) I do not know who sent it to me. The ballad was printed but the post mark was from Kinvara, Co Galway. Maybe that lends to your theory re/ Galway. I have been singing this ballad for some years now, I first heard Jim McFarland, Dublin (via.Co Derry)sing it.Jim and Jimmy McBride (Buncrana, Co Donegal) have the version I sing in their book 'My Parents Reared Me Tendely'. In their book they also have a song 'The Bonnet So Blue', when you mix the two together - you almost have the ballad that was posted above The Jacket Of Blue. Maybe you are familure with The Bonnet So Blue. It also mentions YORKSHIRE and Johnny Stewart as opposed to Charlie Stuart. Please don't take offence because someone asks a question!

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