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Green Grow The Rushes - O barndance

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Green Grow The Rushes - O has been added to 23 tunebooks.

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Two settings

1
X: 1
T: Green Grow The Rushes - O
R: barndance
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Gmaj
"^A" DGG3/2A/ Bd G2|BAAB/d/ eAAB/d/|e>f ed Bcdd/d/|
eAA>G AB G2:|:"^B" g3/2g/gf edBd|g3/2g/ga2 f/e/d e>f|
g3/2a/gf edBG|A3/2A/Bd ed G2:|
2
X: 2
T: Green Grow The Rushes - O
R: barndance
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
d2 dc BA F/G/A|d>dde c/B/A B>c|decA BA/A/ F2|E>EFG BA D2|
d2 dc {B/c/}BA F/G/A|d>dde c/B/A B>c|de c/B/A BA/A/ F2|E>E F2 BA D2||
[A,A]DD>E FA D2|FEEA BEEF/A/|B>cBA FGAF/A/|BEE>D EF D2|
[A,A]DD>E FA D2|FEEA BEEG/A/|B>cBA FGAF|BE/E/ E>D E/E/F D2||
d2 dc BA F/B/A|d2 de c/B/A B>c|decA BA F2|E>EFA BA D2|
d2 dc BAFA/c/|d>dde c/B/A B>c|de c/B/A BAFA|E>EFE BA D2||
defa d2 fe|e2 be e2 f<a|b>c'ba fgaf|beed ef d2|
defa d2 fe|e2 be e2 f<a|b>c'ba fg a2|beed ef d2||

Four comments

Green Grow The Rushes - O (Newfoundland)

A very distant relative of the Irish and other European versions, from the Newfoundland accordion player Minnie White. It got lots of precise turns and a strong “snap” to it.

Its an earworm from from Liz Giddings & Roger Digby’s CD ‘The Passing Moment’.

‘snap’?

If in fact this has ‘snap’ to it, there’s no place in your notation where you clearly show that? There is an odd count in bar 2 of the B-part of the tune which you might have intended to notate as that? ~
| g>gga2 f/e/d e>f | = 9/8 It doesn’t add up. Did you mean for that to be the only ‘snap’ in this transcription? i.e.:
| g>gg<a f/e/d e>f | = 8/8
I’ll have to see if I can get an ear full of this take on it, with interest, having some roots in the Canadian Maritimes, including Newfoundland.