IVY GREEN. English, Song (6/8 time). "Ivy Green" was an 1840 ballad. There were two competing versions: one with words written by Boz (Dickens) with music composed and respectfully dedicated to Lynde M. Walter Esq. of Boston by Henry Russell. The other was written by Charles Dickens to music by Herbert Griggs. However, both versions are in duple time.
A dainty plant is the Ivy green That creepeth o'er ruins old Of right choice food are his meals I ween in his cell so lone and cold The wall must be crumbled the stones decayed To pleasure his dainty whim And the mould'ring dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him Creeping where no life is seen A rare old plant is the ivy green Creeping where no life is seen A rare old plant is the ivy green Creeping, creeping, creeping where no life is seen Creeping, creeping a rare old plant is the ivy green
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Printed sources : - Manson (Hamilton's Universal Tune Book vol. 2), 1846; p. 74.
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