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Title
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Green bushes
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Singer
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Iles, Elijah
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Notes
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Note 1
Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: "An old favourite once popular throughout the upper Thames valley. It has many times been offered to me by the oldest men now living there, and it was equally pleasing to the women who sang it in the fields. Words of Elijah Iles, and William Jeffries, Longcot, Berkshire."
Note 2
In Verse 2 Line 3 the original text read:
If you will task loyal and constant be
In Verse 3 Lines 1 and 2 the original text read:
I want none of your beavers nor fine silken hose
For I never was so poor as to marry for clothes;
In Verse 6 Line 1 the original text read:
I';ll be much like a schoolboy not spend my time in play,
In Verse 6 Line 3 the original text read:
Then shall never a false woman deceive me any more
Note 3
The tune used for the recording is fairly common.
Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2011.
