Green Grow the Rashes [an Older Edition]
Green Grow the Rashes [an Older Edition] - meaning Summary
Earthly Desire and Humor
This short, comic Scots song records a bawdy encounter in plain, colloquial language. The narrator celebrates physical pleasure with a repeated refrain praising "the bellies o' the lassies." He recounts meeting a gentle woman, the quick movement from courtship to physical contact, and the enjoyment of sex with ceremony discarded. The tone is humorous, openly erotic, and fondly earthy rather than sentimental. The poem uses dialect and repetition to create a communal, singsong effect that emphasizes appetite and bodily warmth over propriety.
Read Complete AnalysesGreen grow the rashes, O, Green grow the rashes, O, The sweetest bed that e'er I got, Was the bellies o' the lassies, O. 'Twas late yestreen I met wi' ane, And vow but she was gentle, O; Ae han' she pat to my gravat, The tither to my pintle, O. Green grow the rashes, O, Green grow the rashes, O, The sweetest bed that e'er I got, Was the bellies o' the lassies, O. I dought na speak, yet was na fly'd, My heart play'd duntie, duntie, O, A' ceremonie laid aside, I fairly faund her cuntie, O. Green grow the rashes, O, Green grow the rashes, O, The sweetest bed that e'er I got, Was the bellies o' the lassies, O.
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