{"id":619,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/green-grows-the-laurel\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:37:30","slug":"green-grows-the-laurel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/green-grows-the-laurel\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Grows the Laurel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Green Grows the Laurel<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-619-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/green-grows-the-laurel.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/green-grows-the-laurel.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/green-grows-the-laurel.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/green-grows-the-laurel.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Green Grows the Laurel.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 853918.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 279.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> song.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> Lucy Simpson.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> private.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>He left her for somebody he loved better &#8211; whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>Green grows the laurel and soft fall[s] the dew<br \/>\nAnd sorry I am, love, for parting from you<br \/>\nBut at our next meeting our joys we&#8217;ll renew<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll love one another and vow to be true.<\/p>\n<p>Once I had a true love and now I have none,<br \/>\nAnd since he has left me I sigh all alone<br \/>\nBut since he has left me, contented I&#8217;ll be<br \/>\nFor he loves another far better than me.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>I wrote him a letter in red rosy lines<br \/>\nHe answered back another all twisted and twined<br \/>\nSaying &#8216;Keep your love letter, and I will keep mine;<br \/>\nWrite to your true love and I&#8217;ll write to mine!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>I passed my love&#8217;s window both early and late<br \/>\nThe looks that he gave me my poor heart did break<br \/>\nThe looks that he gave me a thousand would kill<br \/>\nThough he hates and detests me, yet I love him still.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tis often I wonder why maidens love men<br \/>\nAnd sometimes I wonder why young men love them<br \/>\nBut from my own knowledge I&#8217;d have you to know<br \/>\nThat men are deceivers wherever they go!<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>This is another of the songs Joe heard, but had not managed to get all the words for until he got them from a book. It&#8217;s clear from their conversation that Joe is reading from a printed source while he sings this; presumably Lucy has asked him to do so in order to hear the air. Interestingly, once he has finished singing the printed version of the song his memory throws up a different version of the next-to-last verse:<\/p>\n<p>I passed my love&#8217;s window so late in the night<br \/>\nThe look that he gave me, it gave me a fright<br \/>\nThe look that he gave me a thousand will kill<br \/>\nWhile there&#8217;s breath in my bosom he&#8217;s the lad I love still!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amhrain","category-amhrain-i-mbearla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}