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!84 GREEN GROW THE LEAVES |
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Green grow the leaves round the old oak tree, As we go marching on.
Bless my life I hardly knew you, Bless my life I hardly knew you, Bless my life I hardly knew you, As we go marching on.
—Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire (Miss Peacock).
II. Green grow the leaves on the old oak tree,
I love the boys and the boys love mey
As we go marching on.
—Sharleston (Miss Fowler).
III. I love the boys and the boys love me, I love the boys and the boys love me, I love the boys and the boys love me, As we go marching home.
Glory, glory, hallelujah ! Glory, glory, hallelujah ! Glory, glory, hallelujah !
As we go marching home.
The old whiskey bottle lies empty on the shelf, The old whiskey bottle lies empty on the shelf, The old whiskey bottle lies empty on the shelf, As we go marching home.
—Earls Heaton, Yorkshire (Herbert).
(d) In Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire the game is pla)'ed by the children forming a circle and dancing round, singing. The first and third lines are sung three times. Partners are chosen during the singing of the last line. Miss Peacock adds, " The rest wanting, as my informant had forgotten the game." In the Sharleston version the children march round two by two, in a double circle, with one child in the centre, singing the verse. At the conclusion, the children who are marching on the inner side of the circle leave their partners and take the place of one in front of them, while the centre child endeavours to get one of the vacant places, the child turned out taking the place of the one in the centre, when the game begins again. |
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