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12-string Guitar: High Germany

2,726 views · Published 13 June 2009 · 3:08 · Indexed 10 October 2026

Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music

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Prior to March 2017, I added the lyrics and chords to my videos using YouTube annotations. However, YouTube decided to make annotations obsolete at that time as they did not work on mobile phones, so since then I have been adding them using my own video editor app.
YouTube did promise that annotations that already existed on videos would still be visible on PCs, but they seem to have changed their minds on that and they are no longer visible.
Consequently, if you are watching a video uploaded before 2017, annotations are not available. 
If you are not able to get the annotations, send me your email address and I will let you have the file from my own collection.

There are a number of versions of this song, notably by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, but it is an English song rather than Irish. England was involved in several wars on the continent. In 1702 England and The Netherlands declared war on France and Spain. England's involvement in the War of Spanish Succession lasted until 1711. In 1718 Britain entered into the Quadruple Alliance with France, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Emperor in opposition to Philip V of Spain. In 1725 Great Britain was again involved with war on the continent. One source dates this to the Seven Years' War (1756-1763). The Seven Years' War was fought between a coalition of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden and Saxony against Prussia (led by Frederick the Great). England allied with Prussia. This is probably the most likely war being referred to in this song.

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