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19 Dec 06 - 09:57 AM (#1913597) Subject: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Gizmo For a while I have been searching for the lyrics for the tune Bonnie Green Garters which my morris dance side dance to, but to no avail. My team sings adapted lyrics, Here's to the fellows they're ugly as hell..... but could any one out there help with the original lyrics, if there were any. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks |
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19 Dec 06 - 10:04 AM (#1913602) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Schantieman Here's to the ladies, we love them so well, Though some are regular Tartars! Here's to their knickers and here's to their bras And here's to their bonny green garters. At least, that's what the Southport Swords sing. Is this what you had in mind? S |
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19 Dec 06 - 10:07 AM (#1913605) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Keith A of Hertford Standon Morris sing it as It's off with their knickers and off with their bras And off with their bonny green garters. |
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19 Dec 06 - 10:19 AM (#1913628) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Mo the caller knickers and bras don't sound very 'trad', there must be older versions. And what is the ugly men version? |
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19 Dec 06 - 10:38 AM (#1913656) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: ClaireBear As I recall, Berkeley Morris sings it thus: Here's to the lasses, we love them so well, Though some are regular Tartars! Here's to their stockings and here's to their shoes And here's to their bonny green garters. Here's to the laddies, we love them so well, Though some are very slow starters. Off with their baldrics and off with their bells, But leave their bonny green garters. (It's been awhile, so I'm not sure about the third line in verse 1. Pretty sure of the rest, though.) |
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19 Dec 06 - 10:41 AM (#1913661) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Tradsinger Here's to our stockings and here's to our shoes And here's to our bonny green garters. A pair for me and a pair for you And a pair for them that comes after (Gloucestershire Morris Men) |
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20 Dec 06 - 08:38 AM (#1914637) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Gizmo Hers to the fellows they're ugly as hell it's hard to stifle our laughter they whisper sweet nothings and jingle our bells but we know what they're bloody well after That's the version we sing (Dacre morris) |
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25 Jun 12 - 09:55 AM (#3367741) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: GUEST,Mike Whitaker *Early* childhood memory, when my father fiddled for the White Rose men in Leeds: Here's to the ladies we all love so well, Though some are regular Tartars! Here's to their stockings and here's to their shoes And here's to their bonny green garters. I haven't seen his current side (Hull - Green Ginger Men) in long enough I can't remember if they do it. |
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25 Jun 12 - 01:02 PM (#3367804) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Steve Gardham As a Green Ginger original those are the words we sang c1969. |
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25 Jun 12 - 08:20 PM (#3368004) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Herga Kitty Tradsinger's version is pretty well what I remember being sung by Gloucestershire Morris and other teams (including from Oxfordshire) dancing Cotswold dances in the Cotswolds... Kitty |
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26 Jun 12 - 10:37 AM (#3368186) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler I strongly suspect that this is related to "Here's to the maiden of bashful sixteen" from an eighteenth century musical, very well known, whose title is on the tip of my tongue. "She stoops to conquer"? The tune used there is now called "Abnalls". |
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26 Jun 12 - 03:17 PM (#3368304) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Steve Gardham Ebor, Possibly, the chorus of 'Here's to the Maiden' has some affinity but the phrasing is quite different. Sheridan certainly wrote it. |
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18 Feb 21 - 08:12 AM (#4093656) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Tug the Cox This is the poem by Sheridan https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/here-s-to-the-maiden-of-bashful-fifteen/ |
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18 Feb 21 - 08:14 AM (#4093657) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bonnie Green Garters From: Tug the Cox And set to music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQwVUo7Tfik |