Rosemary green, and lavender blue - Bastable, Jennifer

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"A four-part piece in the style of a folk-song, with soloists from within the choir. (If preferred, it may be sung tutti throughout.) With slight adaptation, the song may also be performed by an unaccompanied solo voice, for which a score has been added. The refrain is recorded as a nursery rhyme, although lists of plants and flowers are also common in traditional ballads; the verses are based on motifs from various folk-songs, and are a response to two of the mockingly impossible tasks set in songs such as Scarborough Fair."

◈ Genre → Folksongs

♯ Key F minor

⁄ Time Signature 6/8

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range F2 – D-5

¶ Language → English

Measures 102

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 87155

Editor Jennifer Bastable

Posted 2025-10-16

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

Part_1

C4 – D-5

Part_2

A-3 – A-4

Part_3

E-4 – D-5

Part_4

F2 – A-3

¶Lyrics / Text

Rosemary green, And lavender blue, Thyme, and sweet marjoram, Hyssop, and rue. I made for my love a fine linen shirt With never a seam nor needlework; I washed it clean in yonder dry well Where water ne’er sprung nor a drop of rain fell. Rosemary green, And lavender blue, Thyme, and sweet marjoram, Hyssop, and rue. And I planted fair roses to bloom in the spring When the leaves they were green and the small birds did sing: But my love he proved false and he stole them from me, And left but the prickling thorns on the tree. Rosemary green, And lavender blue, Thyme, and sweet marjoram, Hyssop, and rue.