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Thread #16090   Message #148336
Posted By: Lin in Kansas
11-Dec-99 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Tarrytown / Wild Goose Grasses (Allison)
Subject: Lyr Add: TARRYTOWN / WILD GOOSE GRASSES
Amos--
Barley Bree did a version of it on their cassette (sorry, no CD) "Speak Up for Old Ireland". The song is called "Wild Goose Grasses on that tape.

There's also a version with melody and 3 verses on page 61 in "Collected Reprints from Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine, Vols. 1-6 1959-1964"ISBN 0-9626704-0-5, publisher: Sing OutCorporation, P.O. Box 5253, Bethlehem, PA 18015-5253; (215) 865-5368. A note says the book can be ordered direct from the publisher.

TARRYTOWN (WILD GOOSE GRASSES)
(words & music by John Allison © 1959, Hollis Music, Inc.)

In Tarrytown there did dwell,
A lovely youth, I knew him well.
He courted me my life away,
And now with me he will no longer stay.

CHORUS:
Wide and deep my grave will be,
With the wild goose grasses growing over me.

Oh, when I wore my apron low,
He'd follow me, through ice and snow,
Now that I wear my apron high,
He goes right down my street and passes by.

CHORUS

There is an inn in Tarrytown,
Where my love goes, and he sits him down,
He takes another on his knee,
For she has gold and riches more than me.

CHORUS

(The Barley Bree version changes the last line to "And don't you know how much that vexes me.")

Hope this helps.
Line Breaks
and songwriter name & title added.
-Joe Offer-