Green Grows the Rashes

X:221
T:Green Grows the Rashes
M:4/4
L:1/8
S:Neil Gow & Son's Complete Repository c.1805
R:Reel
K:G
A|G/2G/2G B>A BGGB|A/2A/2A e>d eAAB|c2 ce d/2c/2B/2A/2 GB|
A/2B/2c BA GE E2:|A|G/2G/2G g>f gddg|e/2e/2e ag aeef|
g>age d/2c/2B/2A/2 GB|A/2B/2c BA GEEA|G/2G/2G g>f gddg|
e/2e/2e ag aeef|gbeg dgBg|A/2B/2c BA GE E2||
%
% Robert Burns' song to this oldtime favorite strain, was in general
% circulation among the Irish peasantry early in the last century,
% and the name is still well remembered. The melody much older
% than the poet's day, was known as "We're a' dry wi' drinking o't".
% In reel time it was first printed in 1761 by Neil Stewart of Edinburgh
% in A Collection of the Newest and Best Reels, or Country Dances,
% Adapted for Violin or German Flute. The traditional Irish version of
% the tune as remembered by the editor may prove not uninteresting
% to the musical student of a later generation. [See #218]

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/session/MontrealSession/oneill_ws/%221:GREENGROWSTHERASHES/0000

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