Talk:Lord Randall

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Belongs in Wikisource. A synopsis, no more, is suitable here. Goldfritha 19:32, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Green and Yellow
On first hearing this, my immediate thought was its similarity to a children's song 'Green and Yellow'. This follows a similar verse structure, and and similar story - a child eats some poisonous worms, and returns to tell his mother about it, for example:

'What colour were the worms, Henry, my son? What colour were the worms, My beloved one?' 'Green and yellow, Green and yellow, O mother come quick, 'Cause I feel very sick, And I want to lay down and die'

Does anyone know where this originated, and whether there was any connection? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.234.252.67 (talk) 11:19, 6 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I recall
 * 'Where have you been all day,
 * Henry, my son?
 * Where have you been all day,
 * My pretty one.'
 * 'In the woods, dear mother,
 * In the woods, dear mother.
 * Oh, mother, I feel so bad I want to lay me down and die.'
 * What did you in them woods?
 * Ate.
 * What was it that you ate?
 * Eels.
 * What colour was them eels?
 * Green and yellow.
 * Them eels was poisonous snakes.
 * Ugh.
 * Where shall we bury thee?
 * In the woods.
 * What colour flowers do you want?
 * Green and yellow.
 * Sung with dropped aitches, and 'green and yeller', etc.
 * I also have a less clear memory of something a bit closer to your version, with 'Mother be quick 'cause I'm going to be sick and lay me down to die.'
 * Undoubtedly variations on the Lord Randall theme, but I can shed no light on their origin. Are these debased variants of Lord Randall, or is Lord Randall an elevated form of these cruder renditions? Snugglepuss (talk) 15:10, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Undoubtedly variations on the Lord Randall theme, but I can shed no light on their origin. Are these debased variants of Lord Randall, or is Lord Randall an elevated form of these cruder renditions? Snugglepuss (talk) 15:10, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

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