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The Green Grass Grew All Around

Date 08 July 1961
Track ID 56343
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1961.79.B1

Original Tape ID

SA1961.079

Summary

This cumulative song describes the stump in the ground, the branch on the stump in the ground, and so on, with a twig, nest, egg, bird, leg, foot, toe, nail and speck.

Item Notes

12 verses of increasing length (cumulative), verses 5 and 6 repeated.

See:
Greig-Duncan vol. 8, pp. 201-203, no. 1668
'Folksongs of Britain & Ireland' (P. Kennedy, 1975) pp. 226-227
'Folk-Song of the North-East' (G. Greig, K. Goldstein, A. Argo, 1963 reprint) art. LXXXVI & LXXXVII

Recording Location

County - Orkney

Parish - Kirkwall and St Ola

Island - Orkney Mainland

Village/Place - Kirkwall

Language

English

Genre

Song

Collection

SoSS

Classification

R129 GD1668

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair