Broom Green Broom

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Theme code Index	13 15 42 5L2
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English, Northumbrian/Borders
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	6/8
History	ENGLAND(North East)
Structure	One part
Editor/Compiler	Biography:J. Collingwood Bruce & John Stokoe
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Northumbrian Minstrelsy
Tune and/or Page number	p. 98
Year of publication/Date of MS	1882
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BROOM, GREEN BROOM. English, Air (6/8 time). England, Northumberland. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. A song popular at various times for several centuries, most recently in the 'folk revival' era. Irish, English and sometimes Scots versions are extent. Malcolm Douglas believes the earliest appearance of the song to be in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (1698-1720). The Northumbrian version given by Bruce & Stokoe begins:

There was an auld man, he liv'd in the west,
His trade was the cutting of broom, green broom;
He had a lazy lad, whose name it was Jack,
Who'd lie in his bed till noon, till noon,
Who'd lie in his bed till noon.

Variants have also been collected in North America in Newfoundland and New England.

Printed source: Bruce & Stokoe (Northumbrian Minstrelsy), 1882; p. 98.

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T:Broom, Green Broom
M:6/8
L:1/8
S:Bruce & Stokoe - Northumbrian Minstelsy
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
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