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04 Jul 03 - 03:17 PM (#976850) Subject: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns? From: GUEST,Lutenist 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). |
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04 Jul 03 - 03:31 PM (#976860) Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns? From: dick greenhaus Burns collected several bawdy versions of this one. |
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04 Jul 03 - 03:33 PM (#976863) Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns? From: GUEST,Lutenist I was under the impression that Burns was a *rewriter* rather than a collector? |
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04 Jul 03 - 03:44 PM (#976869) Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns? From: GUEST 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. |
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04 Jul 03 - 03:48 PM (#976871) Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns? From: GUEST,Lutenist All the versions of this I have say they were *by* Burns. Any non-Burns attributions for this? |
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04 Jul 03 - 04:03 PM (#976880) Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns? From: Malcolm Douglas 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. |
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04 Jul 03 - 04:11 PM (#976884) Subject: RE: Green Grow the Rashes/Rushes-pre-Burns? From: GUEST,Q This has been gone over before (see related threads, above). Although some have speculated about a pre-Burns version, one has not been found. |