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| GUEST,adavis@truman.edu | Lyr Req: Green Grow the Rushes (47) | RE: Green Grow the Rushes | 10 Oct 02 |
If no one's mentioned it yet, this was a popular song among American troops during the Mexican war. The Mexicans called the singing troops "Green-Grows," later "gringos." So the story goes. Apocryphal, I suppose. Anybody who knows? | |||