Green Grow the Rashes

Versions of
Green Grow the Rashes
by Robert Burns

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Written in 1783 in Burns' commonplace book, and published in Poems in 1787. Later in 1787 it was published with music in The Scots Musical Museum, the first of Burns' poems to be set to music.

Not to be confused with the similarly titled song, "Green Grow the Rushes, O".

2370229Green Grow the RashesRobert Burns (1759-1796)

Versions of Green Grow the Rashes include:

"Green grows the Rashes" in The Scots Musical Museum, Volume 1, ed. by James Johnson (1787).
"Green grow the Rashes, O" in The Lover's Songster (19th century).
"Green Grow the Rashes" in My Bonnie Mary (1815-1825)
"Green grow the Rashes, O", in The Song Book No. 4 (n. d.), a chapbook printed in Glasgow
"Green Grow the Rashes" in Green Grows the Rashes (1823), a chapbook printed in Edinburgh
"Green Grow the Rashes" in The Merry Muses of Caledonia (1911)