Roud 954

Also found as The Yellow Handkerchief, I Once Loved a Young Man, and so on. Mainly from Southern English tradition, though reported also in the USA and Canada.

Broadside examples at  Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads:

Flash Company

The Wandering Girl, or the Bud of a Rose


The tunes in Petrie which Purslow refers to are as follows:

X:1
T:222: The Green Bushes
B:Stanford-Petrie, Complete Collection of Irish Music, 1903.
S:"Set by Mr Joyce from J. Martin, August 1854."
N:Untitled in S-P.
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:3/4
K:F
C2|F2 A2 F2|E3/2F/ GA B2|c2 dc GF|E4 CD/E/|F2 A2 F2|
EF GA B2|c2 ec d=B|c4 AB|c2 A2 f2|d2 c2 d/c/A/G/|
F2 FG A3/2F/|D4 CD/F/|F2 A2 GF|EF G2 AB|c2 dB G3/2E/|F4|]


X:2
T:223: An cumhain leatsa an oidhche �ºd?
T:Do you remember that night?
B:Stanford-Petrie, Complete Collection of Irish Music, 1903.
S:"Set from M. Dineen by Mr Joyce."
N:Untitled in S-P.
L:1/8
Q:1/4=100
M:3/4
K:F
CD/E/|F2 F2 GF|E2 F2 (3GAB|c2 BG FG|E2 C2 (3CDE|
F2 F2 GF|E2 F2 (3GAB|c2 BG FG|F4 (3GAB|c2 c2 {c}BA|B2 B2 cB|
A2 G2 FG|E2 C2 (3CDE|F2 F2 GF|E2 F2 (3GAB|c2 BA F3/{A}2G/|F4|]


Stanford omitted a lot of the tune titles; they are here restored from the tables in Donal O'Sullivan's article, The Petrie Collections of Irish Folk Music (Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, vol.5 no.1, 1946).


O'Neill also prints a related Green Bushes air:

X: 3
T: THE GREEN BUSHES
T: Na tomanaidhe glais
B: O'Neill's 331
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
Z: 1999 by John Chambers
N: "Slow"
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book/oneills/1850/X/0331_jc.abc
K:A
EE
| A2 c2 A2 | (G>A) (Bc) d2 | e2 fd B>A | G4 ((3EFG)
| A2 c2 A2 | (GABc) d2 | e2 (ge) (f^d) | e4 (cd) ||
| e2 c2 aa | (f2 e2) (f/e/c/B/) | A2 (AB c>A) | F4 ((3EFG)
| A2 c2 A2 | (GA) B2 (cd) | e2 (fd) B>G | A2- Az ||

Edited By Malcolm Douglas - 01/04/2003 16:38:20