The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11139   Message #81132
Posted By: Frank of Toledo
24-May-99 - 01:54 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Green Laurel / Green Grows the Laurel
Subject: RE: the green laurel / green grows the laurel
This is from a 1997 Julie Henigan recording on Waterbug. GREEN GROWS THE LAUREL" Traditional.......A love song learned from a recording of the sublime County Antrim singer Len Graham, who got his version chiefly from Eddie Butcher of Magilligan County Derry. The song, which seems popular among "travellers" in Britain and Ireland, contains allusions to several forms of symbolic flora........