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 211
EEN GROW THE LEAVES '85 Iii the Earls Heaton version there is the circle of children, with one child in the centre, who chooses a partner after the lines have been sung. (c) From this it would seem that while the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire words appear to be the most complete, the action has… … -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 dint…
Games -- Great Britain
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