Green Grow The Rushes O [1]
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Green Grow the Rushes O [1]" is represented by a large and diverse family of tunes.<br> Bayard's thirteen Pennsylvania collected versions of the tune are divided into<br> two groups, corresponding with two main British Isles variants. This version, from<br> Bayard version A is one of those usually called "Green Grow the Rushes O". <br> The other variant is known, in various locations, by a wide variety of names.<br> It is similar to the Scottish tune "The East Neuk of Fife".<br> See "Green Grow the Rushes O[2]" for its description.<br> The current tune is a Scottish (originally), Irish, English and American strathspey,<br> hornpipe, barndance, highland schottische, fling, slide (12/8 time), march or air<br> in G Major, F Major or E Minor. The parts are played AB (Cole, Howe, Moylan,<br> Tubridy, White), AAB (Athole, Ford, Gow, O'Farrell), AABB (most versions), AABB'<br> (O'Brien, Skye) or AA'BB' (Flaherty).<br> The air first appears in early lute manuscripts of the 17th century. The<br> first strain of the tune occurs twice in the Straloch Manuscript of 1627.<br> It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981),<br> Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940),<br> Ford's Traditional Music of America (1940),<br> Gow's Complete Repository, Part 1 (1799),<br> Howe's 1000 Jigs and Reels (c. 1867),<br> J. Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1 (1787),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (c. 1880),<br> Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 2 (c. 1880's),<br> McGibbon's Collection of Scots Tunes, vol. 2 (c. 1746),<br> O'Farrell's Pocket Companion, vol. 2 (c. 1806)(appears as "Green Grows the Rashes"),<br> O'Neill's Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melody (1922),<br> Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 1 (1760),<br> Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883),<br> Sharp's Sword Dances of Northern England: Songs and Dance Airs, Book 2 (1912)(as "Bobby Shaftoe"),<br> Stewart-Robertson's The Athole Collection (1884),<br> Walsh's Caledonian Country Dances, vol. 2 (1737),<br> White's Unique Collection (1896),<br> Wilson's A Companion to the Ballroom (1816) and many others.<br> It was recorded by Robin Williamson on Legacy of the Scottish Harpers, vol. 2,<br> How to Change a Flat Tire on Traditional Music From Ireland and Shetland and others.<br>
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