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Thread #159243 Message #3811781
Posted By: Richie
28-Sep-16 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: The trees they do grow high: medieval?
Subject: RE: The trees they do grow high: medieval?
Hi,
These are the traditional UK version I have- if anyone knows a version I'm missing please post title and if you have it the text:
British & other versions 5. A-Growing
My Love is Long A-Growing: (Edin) c.1776 Herd
Lady Mary Ann- Robert Burns (Edin) 1787 Johnson
Craigston's Growing- (Aber) pre1818 Rev. Scott
My Bonnie Laddie's Lang o' Growing- (Pais) c.1819
The Young Laird of Craigstoun- Nicol (Strich) 1822
Lament of a Young Damsel- Macqueen (Ayr) c.1825
My Bonny Laddie's Young- Broadside (Scot) c.1825
My Love A-Growing: Bell Robertson (Pits) c.1856
Young Craigston- (Buchan) pre1881 Christie
Trees They Are So High- Parsons (Lew) 1888 B-G.
Trees They Are So- Parsons/Baker (Lew) 1889 B-G.
My Bonny Boy- Mary O'Bryan (Cahir) 1890 B.Gould
All the Trees- Mrs.Mason (Devon) 1890 B.Gould
Growing- William Aggett (Chag) 1890 B.Gould
Trees They Are So High- Hannaford (Wid) 1890 B-G.
My Bonny Lad Is Young- Thompson (York) 1893 Kidson
The Trees are Getting High- George Ede (Sur) 1896
Trees They Do Grow High- Harry Richards (Som) 1904
He's Growing- Mrs. Glover (Som) 1904 Sharp B
Trees They Do Grow High- Gouldthorpe (Linc) 1905
My Bonny Lad Is Young- Amos Ash (Som) 1905
He's Growing- Mr. Booker (Sus) 1905 V. Williams
But A-Growing: woman (Devon) 1905 Bertha Bidder
The Bonny Lad- Lucy White (Som) 1905 Sharp C
Trees They Do Grow High- Beverley (Linc) 1905
Still Growing- Wilson Champ (Som) 1905 Sharp D
Still Growing- Harriet Young (Som) 1905 Sharp E
Trees They are so High- William Bartlett(Dor) 1905
All the Trees- Henry Stansbridge (Hamp) 1906
Trees They Grows High- James Brown (Hamp) 1906
Green Grows the Grass- Joseph Taunton (Dor) 1906
Trees They do Grow High- Mrs. Studeley (Dor) 1906
The Trees They Are Withered- Mrs. Hann (Dor) 1906
At the Age of Fourteen- Marina Russell (Dor) 1907
Trees They Do Grow- Ginger Clayton (Cam) 1907
Trees They Do Grow High- William Smith (Hre) 1907
Trees They Do Grow High- David Penfold (Sus) 1907
Young But Growing- James Cheyne (Aber) c.1908
Still Growing- Jack Barnard (Som) 1908 Sharp F
Still Growing- Alfred Emery (Som) 1908 Sharp G
The Trees They Do Grow- Mrs. Whiting (Mon) 1908
My Bonnie Laddie's Young- Mrs. Bowker (Lanc) 1909
My Bonnie Laddie's Young- Whitehead (Lanc) 1909
Trees They Did Grow High- Wm Ellison (Wilt) 1909
Trees They Do Grow- Stephen Spooner (Sus) 1911
My Bonny Lad Is Young- Mrs. Joiner (Herts) 1914
Still Growing- Kathleen Williams(Glos)1921 Sharp H
My Father's Castle Wall- Nelson Ridley (Kent) 1926
Trees They Do Grow High- Bob Copper (Sus) c.1952
The Trees are Growing Tall- Pat Kelly (Down) 1953
Young but Growing- Margaret McGarvey (Ferm) 1954
The Bonny Boy- Seán 'ac Dhonncha (Carna) 1955
Long a-Growing: May Bradley (Shrop) c.1959 Hamer
Young But Growing- Caroline Hughes (Dor) c.1962
My Bonny Boy Is Young- Joe Heaney (Carna) 1964
Lang A-Growing: Liam Clancy (Tip) 1965 REC
The Bonny Boy- Fred Jordan (Shrop) 1966 Yates
Young Man A-Growing- George Dunn (Birm) 1972
The College Boy- Lizzie Higgins (Scot)1973 Kennedy
Long A-Growing- Mary Ann Haynes (Sus) 1974 Yates
Trees They Do Grow High- Walter Pardon (Nor) 1974
Trees They Grew High- Pat MacNamara (Clare) 1975
Tale of the Little Boy- Nelson Penfold (Dev) 1974
Long a-Growing: Harry Brazil (Glou) 1977 Davies
The Bonny Boy- Tom Lenihan (Clare) 1987 REC
The Bonny Boy- Maggie McGee (Don) 1992 McBride
Trees They Grew High- Vincie Boyle (Clare) 2012
I've got most of the headnotes down here: http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/5-a-growing-the-trees-they-do-grow-high.aspx
Need to proof it still,
Richie