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15 Apr 11 - 06:44 PM (#3136018) Subject: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: Floksnog I just worked out this tune from Chagford, Devon, and put it on my blog. It was collected by Sabine Baring Gould in 1890... http://westcountryfolklore.blogspot.com/2011/04/chagford-tune-all-trees-they-are-so.html |
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15 Apr 11 - 06:45 PM (#3136020) Subject: ADD Version: All the trees they do grow high From: Floksnog Opps, got the name wrong (not a good start) - it is actually - All The Trees They are so High쳌 Here are the lyrics - As I looked over my father's castle wall I saw four and twenty boys playing at the ball But my pretty lad he did exceed them all And my pretty lad is young and he is growing O father, father dear, if that you think it fit We'll send him to the collage for a year yet And spinning I at home will sit-sit-sit. Whilst my pretty lad is young and is growing I'll buy my love five shirts of the Holland so fine And all the time I'm sowing, the tears run down the twine And I will sit and sing of that sweet love of mine, Whilest my pretty lad is young and is growing I'll cast my yellow train away by the root And I will clothe myself all in a boys suit And to the collage ?wish?, I will go a foot When my pretty lad so young still is growing At the age of fourteen he was a married man At the age of fifteen he had a little son At the age of sixteen his thread of life was done So my pretty lad so young had ceased growing |
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15 Apr 11 - 06:47 PM (#3136021) Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: Dave Hanson How clever of you, I've only known it for forty years. Dave H |
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15 Apr 11 - 06:54 PM (#3136028) Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: Noreen How clever and grown-up of you, Dave Hanson, to be so patronising to an enthusiastic new member. Thanks, Fs, I hadn't heard this version before. |
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16 Apr 11 - 11:25 AM (#3136347) Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks, Floksnog. I'm always on the lookout for good tunes. Thanks, too, Noreen. Well done. (Let's see, 6:47 Mudcat time = 11:47 British time. The pubs have closed. Our beers are deteriorating from jolly to sullen. We've had the jolly company of the guys who know everything and don't like anybody. Let's go home, turn on the computer, and look for somebody to insult.) |
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16 Apr 11 - 12:29 PM (#3136374) Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: GUEST,Paul Burke Nice version Flokmog. (I've known it for forty years too, but of the 5 or 6 versions I know, this isn't one of them). I wonder if her yellow train looked like this? I think you're blowing that fiddle the wrong end though. And the glasses are both empty. Maybe the two are connected. |
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16 Apr 11 - 03:25 PM (#3136482) Subject: RE: Tune Add: All the trees they do grow high From: Floksnog Thanks - I too have 2 other versions sung by different bands on CD (one is by Rubens Train and the other I cant remember!) and have heard it in pubs and festivals. This was a new version I had not come across before, and I loved the lines "And all the time I'm sowing, the tears run down the twine", as well as the yellow train by the root... (must have been a time loop if it was that train Paul!) Maybe I put the wrong tag with the title - I couldn't find one for different versions.... |
