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Green Grow the Rushes, O (alternatively "Ho" or "Oh") (also known as "The Twelve Prophets", "The Carol of the Twelve Numbers", "The Teaching Song", "The Dilly Song", or "The Ten Commandments"), is an English folk song (Roud #133). It is sometimes sung as a Christmas carol. It often takes the form of antiphon, where one voice calls and is ...
6. I'll sing you six, O Green grow the rushes, O What are your six, O? Six for the six proud walkers, Five for the symbols at your door, and Four for the gospel-makers, Three, three arrivals! Two, two lily-white boys Clothed all in green, O One is one, and all alone, And ever more shall be so. 7. I'll sing you seven, O Green grow the rushes, O
Recorded at the Middle Kingdom's Bardic Madness in the Barony of the Cleftlands as par... Masters Cerian Cantwr & John Inchingham performing a traditional work.
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Chorus: [D] Green grow the rushes O. [Em] Green grow the rushes O - O - [G]O. The sweetest hours that [D]e'er I spent. [Em] Are spent a-[D]mong the [G]lassies O [G] 3. [D] Old nature swears the lovely dears. [Em] Her noblest work she classes, O. [G] Her apprentice hand she [D]tried on man.
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‘Green Grow the Rushes, O’ is a complicated and interesting poem that uses counting to help young singers/readers understand information from the Bible and about astronomy. The poem starts with twelve and counts down to one. The twelve apostles are the first part of the Bible referenced. Then, the poem goes on to talk about those who went to heaven...
‘Green Grow the Rushes, O’ is a seventeen-line nursery rhyme that’s usually structured within one stanza. The lines vary in length, ranging from five syllables up to around ten. The poem does not follow a specific rhyme scheme either, although there are several different end rhymes. For example, “O” which ends the first three lines, rhymes with “O”...
Throughout this piece, there are several different literary devices at work. These include but are not limited to: 1. Enjambment: when a line is cut off before its natural stopping point and the reader has to go down to the next line to find the second half of it, it is enjambed. For example, the transitionbetween lines sixteen and seventeen. 2. Re...
Lines 1-8
In the first lines of this nursery rhyme, the speaker begins with the number twelve and starts counting down to one. It is far from the only counting song in the history of English nursery rhymes. But, the interpretations are quite varied. There is a direct mention of the Apostles and the “ten commandments” in the first few lines which are obvious Christian allusions. The speaker talks about the twelve apostles and the “eleven” who went to heaven, subtracting Judas Iscariot. The “ten commandm...
Lines 9-17
In the following lines, there are “seven stars in the sky,” perhaps a reference to the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. It takes a great deal of research and knowledge about these topics to know what the lyrics could be referring to. Even then, there are scholars who disagree with these connections. “Six proud walkers” is one of the most difficult lines. Some believe this line was corrupted over time and that it should read “waters” as a reference to the jars of water t...
Readers who enjoyed ‘Green Grow the Rushes, O’ should also consider reading some other nursery rhymes. For example: 1. ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider’– has an interesting and unclear history, awash with alternative lyrics and foreign language adaptions. 2. ‘Foxy’s Hole’ – originated in Tudor England. The reference to a fox as “foxy” makes a child more comforta...
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I'll sing you six, O Green grow the rushes, O What are your six, O? Six for the six proud walkers, Five for the symbols at your door, Four for the Gospel makers, Three, three, the rivals, Two, two, lily-white boys, Clothed all in green, O One is one and all alone And evermore shall be so.
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Jun 23, 2024 · Also known as The Twelve Prophets, The Carol of the Twelve Numbers, The Teaching Song, The Dilly Song, or The Ten Commandments: English folk song (Roud #133) often sung as a Christmas carol. It is not to be confused with the poem by Robert Burns, "Green Grow the Rashes, O". Versions of Green Grow the Rushes, O include: "The Dilly Song" in A ...
