
Lavender's Blue
All Instruments and Vocals: Douglas Milne
From the TwinkleTrax album "Vol. 1: A Sailor Went To Sea - 20 Favourite Nursery Rhymes and Kid's Songs"
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Check out this other version of this classic Lullaby:
Lavender's Blue, dilly dilly,
Lavender's Green
When I am king, dilly dilly,
You shall be queen
Call up your men, dilly dilly,
Set them to work
Some to the plough, dilly dilly
Some to the cart
Some to make hay, dilly dilly
Some to reap corn
While you and I, dilly dilly
Keep ourselves warm
Lavender's Blue, dilly dilly,
Lavender's Green
When I am king, dilly dilly,
You shall be queen
Call up your men, dilly dilly,
Send them to war
While you and I, dilly dilly
Keep ourselves warm
Lavender's Blue, dilly dilly,
Lavender's Green
When I am king, dilly dilly,
You shall be queen
Lavender's Green
When I am king, dilly dilly,
You shall be queen
Call up your men, dilly dilly,
Set them to work
Some to the plough, dilly dilly
Some to the cart
Some to make hay, dilly dilly
Some to reap corn
While you and I, dilly dilly
Keep ourselves warm
Lavender's Blue, dilly dilly,
Lavender's Green
When I am king, dilly dilly,
You shall be queen
Call up your men, dilly dilly,
Send them to war
While you and I, dilly dilly
Keep ourselves warm
Lavender's Blue, dilly dilly,
Lavender's Green
When I am king, dilly dilly,
You shall be queen
Origins of "Lavender's Blue"
The earliest known version of this song is in a broadside printed in England between 1674 and 1679, under the name "Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers".
It later emerged as a children's song in "Songs for the Nursery" in 1805 as "Lavender Blue and Rosemary Green".
Origins text ©2011 TwinkleTrax Children's Songs.









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