The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 210
again. GREEN GROW THE LEAVES 185 In the Earls Heaton version there is the circle of children, withone child in the centre, who chooses a partner after the lineshave been sung. {c) From this it would seem that while the Lincolnshire andNottinghamshire words appear to be the most complete, theaction… … —Northants (R. S. Baker). Green grow the leaves on the hawthorn tree.Green grow the leaves on the hawthorn tree.We jangle and we wrangle and we never can agree.But the tenor of our song goes merrily, merrily, merrily,The tenor of our song goes merrily. —R. S. Baker {Northants Notes andQueries, ii.…
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