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Thread #3470   Message #471272
Posted By: Pinetop Slim
27-May-01 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Green Grow the Rushes
Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rushes
"Come Let Us Sing," from a songster by the same name published by the Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., (1974)to be a cousin. Notes say it was recorded by Marie Marvel (Appalachian social worker from 1930s onward; collected many). I'm close to certain I've heard Jean Ritchie sing it.
Come, let us sing. What shall we sing? I'll sing you one. What'll be your one? One, one,_ left a-lone lone to be a lone. Come let us sing. What shall we sing? I'll sing you two. What'll be your two? Two, two,_ the lost babe, my dar-ling crea-_ ture. One, one,_ left a-lone, Lone to be a-lone. Three of them were dr-vers_ four the gos-pel_ preachers Five for the fer-ry-man on his boat.
Six, the noble waiters (to 5)
Seven for the seven stars in the north (to 6)
Eight for Gabriel angel (to 7)
Nine for the moonlight shining bright (to 8)
Ten for the ten commandments (to 9)
'Leven for the good men gone to heaven (to 10)
Twelve, the twelve apostles (to 11).