query: rose, rose, rose

Subject: query: rose, rose, rose
From:
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 06:27 PM

hi...i've never posted a message before, but as an amateur collector of traditional songs, your database has always been tremendously helpful to me. there is a song i heard on the radio several years ago (on fiona ritchie's "thistle and shamrock," on npr) i believe it begins like this--

rose, rose, rose, rose will i ever see thee wed? i will marry at your will, sire, at your will

it's sung in a round, to a tune that resembles "hey, ho, nobody's home." i think there are other verses, but i haven't been able to find the lyrics in your database, and i haven't been able to find a recording of it anywhere. if anybody knows where i might find all the lyrics, and a cd, i would be very grateful

thanx caroline

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 06:57 PM

I looked in the DT and only the one verse is there....my daughter knows some more verses, when she gets home after bit I will ask her, and post them, OK?

Subject: LYR ADD: rose, rose, rose
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 07:26 PM

I was wrong, Kate does not know anymore, but I found this:

Rose

(can also be sung as a round)
Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose
Will I ever see thee wed?
I will marry at thy will, Sire
At they will

Ding, dong, ding, dong
Wedding bells on an April morn
Carve your name on a moss covered stone
On a moss covered stone

Little bird
Fly away High up on a mountaintop
On this sad day

from:http://www.guidezone.skl.com/s6_22.htm

And this:

AMERICA

America, America,
Let us tell you how we feel.
You have given us your riches,
We love you still.

LOVE

Love, love, love, love,

The gospel of the world is love.

Love thy neighbor as thy brother,

Love, love, love.

FRIENDS

Friends, friends, friends, friends,

Friends that make the world go round.

Old friends, new friends, all are true friends,

Friends, friends, friends

Which are obviously new verses, from:
http://www.bowsersoft.com/greenacres/rose,america,love,%20friend_.html

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 07:47 PM

e mail sent

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: Gypsy
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 07:53 PM

Minstrels of Mayhem also do this as a round, with similar lyrics

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 08:18 PM

If you were to use the very useful "Digitrad and Forum Search", available on the main Forum page, you would find several past discussions that touch on this song.  I typed in rose rose, and found, in addition to the DT entry and other passing references,  "Rose, Rose" round: more verses?

Malcolm

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 08:20 PM

ahhhhhhh, then. I just used the lyrics box.

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 01 Jan 01 - 09:01 PM

I only use that when the other one's broken.  I was thrilled when Max put in the new search engine, and advertise it regularly.  It does tend to return duplicate (sometimes triplicate) references, but you get so much more...

Malcolm

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: kytrad
Date: 02 Jan 01 - 06:45 PM

In the Kentucky mountains in the 1930s we sang: Rose, rose, rose, rose, Shall I ever see thee red? Aye, marry, that thou wilt, If thou but stay.

In recent years, I used the melody (as many others have!) for my song, "The Peace Round," which you may have heard.

Jean R.

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: GUEST,sharon
Date: 08 May 09 - 11:37 PM

We sang Rose with two verses simutaneously:

Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose
Will I ever see thee wed?
I will marry at thy will sire
At thy will

I won't be my father's Jack
I won't be my mother's Jill
But I will lead a fiddler's life
And fiddle e're I will

Subject: RE: query: rose, rose, rose
From: Melissa
Date: 09 May 09 - 12:26 AM

Does "I won't be my father's jack" have the same melody as "rose"?

I've never heard/learned Jack and have been wondering how it goes for several years. This is the first time I've seen in coupled with Rose.