Green Grow the Rushes (World War II version)

DESCRIPTION: "I'll sing you one-oh, Green grow the rushes, oh. What is your one-oh.... Number one is the old C.O. And ever more shall be so." Similarly for Two, the second in command, on up no nine, the boys in the firing line and ten for the C.O.'s rover
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1979 (Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear)
KEYWORDS: cumulative soldier war derivative
FOUND IN: Canada
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, pp. 55-57, "Green Grow the Rushes" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #133
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You)" (theme and structure)
NOTES [41 words]: Roud lumps this with the "straight" "Green Grow the Rushes-O (The Twelve Apostles, Come and I Will Sing You)," from which it is patently derived, but although the form is familiar, the text is completely rewritten, so I have separated them. - RBW
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File: Hopk066

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