Green Leaves

DESCRIPTION: "Green leaves, green leaves, that grow on a vine, Go choose your partner as I've chosen mine, Honey in the gum so sweet, so sweet, (Joy/Love) is bound to be." Or, "...So choose a partner, the prettiest you can find."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1921 (Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5)
KEYWORDS: love courting playparty
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brown/Schinhan-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore5, pp. 525-527, "Green Leaves" (3 short texts, 3 tunes)
Spurgeon-WaltzTheHall-AmericanPlayParty, p. 111, "Green Leaves" (1 text, 1 tune)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Charles W. Joyner, "The Repertory of Nancy Jones as a Mirror of Culture in Scotland County," Vol. XXI, No. 3 (Sep 1973), p. 91, "The green leaves, the green leaves that grow on the vine" (1 text)
Roud #7892
NOTES [23 words]: Roud lumps this with Wolford-ThePlayPartyInIndiana's "Green Leaf," but they don't have much in common except the leaves. I split them. - RBW
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File: BrS5525

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