Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns?

Subject: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns?
From: GUEST,Lutenist
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:17 PM

Does anyone have a set of pre-Burns words to this Scottish song? (This is: Green grow the rashes O! Green grow the rashes O!
The sweetest hour that e'er I spent Were spent among the lasses O! - not to be confused with the counting song).

Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:31 PM

Burns collected several bawdy versions of this one.

Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns?
From: GUEST,Lutenist
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:33 PM

I was under the impression that Burns was a *rewriter* rather than a collector?

Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:44 PM

Burns did both, and composed originals, so he can't be classifed as doing any one particular thing. Each piece from him has to be considered separately.

Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns?
From: GUEST,Lutenist
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:48 PM

All the versions of this I have say they were *by* Burns. Any non-Burns attributions for this?

Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 04:03 PM

Two bawdy texts appear in The Merry Muses of Caledonia. The tune is also found pre-Burns as Grant's Rant. See entries at The Fiddler's Companion for comment from various sources.

Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns?
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 04:11 PM

This has been gone over before (see related threads, above). Although some have speculated about a pre-Burns version, one has not been found.