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01 Aug 01 - 05:41 AM (#518892) Subject: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: IanC There's quite a lot about trees in folk songs. Here's a quick quiz about some of them. Shouldn't take more that half an hour, as all the songs are in DT. I'm wanting the name of the tree and the song(s) in each case (plus any observations you may have, of course). Trees Quiz
1. The virgins saw him dying there, but only after searching in the forest. Answers as you get them!
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01 Aug 01 - 07:33 AM (#518939) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: IanC Oh hell! Missed out all the BRs. Who's gonna read it, let alone answer it! Help? |
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01 Aug 01 - 10:34 AM (#519047) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Mrrzy Can't answer any of them. Have been thinking of trees from song, though, I've got the oak, ash, birch, allen (whatever that is), and I know there are others... Laurel, yew, holly (it's a tree sometimes), yonder? Does that count? |
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01 Aug 01 - 01:25 PM (#519160) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Amos 3. Best to plant it where the Rue once grew, but don't lean on it. Gotta be an oak, yes? |
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01 Aug 01 - 06:58 PM (#519381) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Hawker 8's Gotta be an apple tree, and I guess is a wassail song Lucy |
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01 Aug 01 - 10:20 PM (#519441) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Amos Q1 is the yew tree, from "The Seven Virgins". Apocryphal. A |
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01 Aug 01 - 10:57 PM (#519451) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Metchosin Q10 Jenifer Gentle? |
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01 Aug 01 - 10:58 PM (#519452) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Metchosin sorry, tree in question 10 the Mulberry tree? |
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01 Aug 01 - 11:18 PM (#519463) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Peg I can only get a couple of them... Trees Quiz 1. The virgins saw him dying there, but only after searching in the forest. 2. Seems to be sad, but Shakespeare has him getting laid in it. --weeping willow? 3. Best to plant it where the Rue once grew, but don't lean on it. 4. Its leaves fall to signal autumn, though seldom now in England. 5. She's bonny, and she's home to owls. --Oak? (Bonny Portmore) 6. Setting for the daughter of a prominent London politician. 7. A small box of this travelling at half past seven, and the dove sailing between. 8. Spotted while travelling in Oxfordshire, but let's have the fruit in capfuls and bushel bags. --apple? 9. Besets the road to heaven, but hunger is sharper. 10. We go round but dew files over --you mean flies over? Mulberry Bush?
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01 Aug 01 - 11:23 PM (#519466) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Jeri 9. Thorn? I'm really curious about 7! |
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02 Aug 01 - 04:20 AM (#519531) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: IanC Thanks folks, so far we've got 1, 3, 8, 9 and 10. Only half in nearly 24 hours is a bit slow for The Mudcat! Here's fuller answers for these, as a summary.
1. Yew ("Leaves of Life" or "7 Virgins") Keep trying with the rest. No. 2 should be easy ... there aren't too many Shakespeare songs in DT!
Cheers! |
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03 Aug 01 - 08:17 AM (#520280) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: IanC Anyone going for any more of these, or do I have to start naming the thread "Shakespeare gets laid in ot!"?
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03 Aug 01 - 08:43 AM (#520294) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Jeri There's this one, and it mentions holly, but there's no laying in it. This one has no trees at all This one's underwater - no trees. This one has frolicing in it, but no trees. This one is based on a line from Shakespeare, and has got a "gallows tree" in it. If it's this one, you're in trouble! |
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03 Aug 01 - 08:47 AM (#520299) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Wolfgang #2: cyprus Wolfgang |
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03 Aug 01 - 08:48 AM (#520301) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Wolfgang cypress I meant Wolfgang |
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03 Aug 01 - 08:53 AM (#520306) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: IanC Well done Wolfgang! Surely you can get #6, someone. There were more mayors in London boroughs than just Dick Whittington and Ken Livingstone. And #4 ... of all the English trees ...
:-) BTW Jeri ... your one with no trees has 2 (and one of them was the right one). |
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03 Aug 01 - 09:09 AM (#520324) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: mooman Number 4 must be the elm? mooman |
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03 Aug 01 - 09:13 AM (#520326) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Wolfgang another attempt using DT's search function: #5: ivy?
for (a) "Oh the oak and the ash and the bonnie ivy tree" (North country maid) and Wolfgang |
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03 Aug 01 - 09:14 AM (#520328) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Jeri 5. is Ivy: owls live there and it's bonny. |
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03 Aug 01 - 09:32 AM (#520339) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: IanC So, we've got 2, 4 and 5.
2. Cypress (Come Away, Death / (eg) Going Down the Valley One by One) Now how about 6 and 7. I've clued you in too much on 6, but - to be honest - 7 started travelling just before 7:30.
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03 Aug 01 - 09:39 AM (#520345) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Wolfgang #6 Now the king of course is a prominent London politician, and in Long John, Old John and Jackie North his daughter kisses her man under tha famous gallows tree. No? Well, I didn't hope too much anyway this time. Wolfgang |
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03 Aug 01 - 09:45 AM (#520351) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Wolfgang #7 pine Wolfgang |
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03 Aug 01 - 09:51 AM (#520355) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: IanC Well done again, Wolfgang 7. Pine (A Little Box of Pine on the 7:29 / George Collins) Just 6 to go. You have to remember the clues are cryptic. The answer's in the setting for the Mayor's daughter (surely you must get it now ... I want to go home soon).
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03 Aug 01 - 09:59 AM (#520362) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Amos Between the acres of rye These pretty country folks would lie And therefore take the present time For love is crowned with the prime. But not about a tree. |
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03 Aug 01 - 10:03 AM (#520369) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: mooman Number 6 = Bay The Mayor of Bayswater's daughter? |
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03 Aug 01 - 10:04 AM (#520371) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: Brian Hoskin Could 6 be the Ash - 'The Ash Grove' tune providing the setting for 'The Mayor of Bayswater's Daughter'? Brian |
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03 Aug 01 - 10:07 AM (#520374) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz: Songs and Trees From: IanC 6. Ash (Ash Grove / Mayor of Bayswater) |