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==Recordings== ==Recordings==
{{In popular culture|section|date=April 2021}}
Several versions of the song have been released in the US, the UK, and Australia.<ref name=Fresno/> Some of the more notable include: Several versions of the song have been released in the US and the UK.<ref name=Fresno/> They include:
*]' hit version, titled "Lavender Blue", which was featured in the ] film '']'' and was nominated for the ].<ref>James Robert Parish, Michael R. Pitts, ''Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor'', Taylor & Francis, 2003, </ref> *]' hit version, titled "Lavender Blue", which was featured in the ] film '']'' and was nominated for the ].<ref>James Robert Parish, Michael R. Pitts, ''Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor'', Taylor & Francis, 2003, </ref>
*]'s 1949 version, charting at #5;<ref name=SDb_Kaye/> *]'s 1949 version, charting at #5;<ref name=SDb_Kaye/>
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*In 1976, the ] group ] recorded the original 17th-century bawdy broadside version of "Lavender's Green, Lavender's Blue" on their album ''Pills to Purge Melancholy''.<ref></ref> *In 1976, the ] group ] recorded the original 17th-century bawdy broadside version of "Lavender's Green, Lavender's Blue" on their album ''Pills to Purge Melancholy''.<ref></ref>
*On their 1985 album '']'', the British rock band ] recorded a song called "]", which quoted lines derived from the folk song and became a number 5 hit on the ].<ref>"Lavender, Marillion </ref><ref></ref><ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/614/marillion/ | title= Marillion | work=Official Charts| access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref> *On their 1985 album '']'', the British rock band ] recorded a song called "]", which quoted lines derived from the folk song and became a number 5 hit on the ].<ref>"Lavender, Marillion </ref><ref></ref><ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/614/marillion/ | title= Marillion | work=Official Charts| access-date=11 April 2021}}</ref>

==Other versions==
Other versions have included the following:
* In 1948, ] released a version of the song as the ] of the ] single '']'', backed by ]'s orchestra.<ref name=VeraLynn/> The single reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on January 21, 1949, and lasted 3 weeks on the chart, peaking at #23.{{citation needed|date=April 2021|reason=We do have a pointer to a ref, that being --Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Record Research--. But we don't have a page number, or access to that book, at the time of this writing.}}
* In 1955, jazz pianist ] recorded it for his album '']''.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* ] made a single of it in 1963<ref>{{Discogs release|8550069|type=single}}</ref> which was not a hit.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.musicvf.com/Tommy+Bruce.art |title=Tommy Bruce Top Songs |work=Music VF |accessdate=April 11, 2021}}<!--N. B.: we don't have a ref specifically saying "this recording was not a hit". However, here's one listing his hits, which doesn't include this recording (and there are other sources which also do, but offline). We consider this proof-by-omission sufficient to ref the statement.--></ref>
* ] recorded a version of the song in 1965.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 1965, ] and a children's Chorus sang the song from the album "Songs from "Mary Poppins" and other children's classics".{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 1975, the song was interpreted by ] and Mary Russell for their '']''. The song was entitled "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)".{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
*In 1976, the song was recorded by The City Waites on their eponymous (second) album.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 1983, ] sang a couplet from the song as an introduction to "]" in the live recording '']''.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 1988, Broadway singer ] recorded a version for her release ''The Disney Album''.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 1991, ] included this song on their albums '']'' and '']''. There are two versions of this song, with one sung by ] and the other sung by ].{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 1993, actress ] sang this song in the movie "] {{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 2011, ] recorded a version for her album '']''.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 2012, ] recorded her rendition of the Sammy Turner version with her band 'Night, Sweet Pea on their album '']''.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 2015, Lily James sang this song in Disney's ''Cinderella'' (2015){{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* In 2016, ] recorded a version for his album ''Mr. Lee''.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}


==References== ==References==
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<ref name=Tsort>{{cite web |url=http://tsort.info/music/ks9vws.htm |title=Song artist 62 - Dinah Shore |work=The World's Music Charts |access-date=March 7, 2017}}</ref> <ref name=Tsort>{{cite web |url=http://tsort.info/music/ks9vws.htm |title=Song artist 62 - Dinah Shore |work=The World's Music Charts |access-date=March 7, 2017}}</ref>


<ref name=SDb_Kaye>{{cite web |url=http://www.song-database.com/chhist.php?sid=25390&type=bs&from=header |title=Billboard Best Sellers Chart History – "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)" by Sammy Kaye 1949 |work=Song Database |access-date=March 7, 2017}}</ref>}} <ref name=SDb_Kaye>{{cite web |url=http://www.song-database.com/chhist.php?sid=25390&type=bs&from=header |title=Billboard Best Sellers Chart History – "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)" by Sammy Kaye 1949 |work=Song Database |access-date=March 7, 2017}}</ref>

<ref name=VeraLynn>{{cite web |url=https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/550467/versions |title=Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) by Vera Lynn |work=Second Hand Songs |accessdate=April 11, 2021}}</ref>

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English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the 17th century
Lavender's Blue
English folk song
A 17th-century broadside version of the ballad
CatalogueRoud 3483
GenreNursery rhyme
PublishedEnglish broadside (before 1680)

"Lavender's Blue" (sometimes called "Lavender Blue") is an English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the 17th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3483. It has been recorded in various forms since the 20th century and some pop versions have been hits in the US and UK charts.

Lyrics

There are as many as thirty verses to the song, and many variations of each verse. A typical version, described by James Halliwell in 1849, is:

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green,
When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen:
Who told you so, dilly dilly, who told you so?
'Twas mine own heart, dilly dilly, that told me so.
Call up your men, dilly dilly, set them to work,
Some with a rake, dilly dilly, some with a fork;
Some to make hay, dilly dilly, some to thresh corn,
Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm.
If you should die, dilly dilly, as it may hap,
You shall be buried, dilly dilly, under the tap;
Who told you so, dilly dilly, pray tell me why?
That you might drink, dilly dilly, when you are dry.

Origins

The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1679, under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers. The broadside indicates it is to be sung to the tune of "Lavender Green", implying that a tune by that name was already in existence. The lyrics printed in the broadside are fairly bawdy, celebrating sex and drinking.

According to Robert B. Waltz, "The singer tells his lady that she must love him because he loves her. He tells of a vale where young man and maid have lain together, and suggests that they might do the same". Waltz cites Sandra Stahl Dolby as describing this broadside version as being about a girl named Nell keeping the singer's bed warm.

Here is the first of ten verses:

Lavender's green, diddle, diddle,
Lavender's blue
You must love me, diddle, diddle,
cause I love you,
I heard one say, diddle, diddle,
since I came hither,
That you and I, diddle, diddle,
must lie together.

Both Waltz (citing Eloise Hubbard Linscott) and Halliwell have noted the song's association with Twelfth Night and the choosing of the king and queen of the festivities of that holiday.

Lyrics and illustration for Lavender's Blue in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters

"Lavender's Blue" emerged as a children's song in Songs for the Nursery in 1805 in the form:

Lavender blue and Rosemary green,
When I am king you shall be queen;
Call up my maids at four o'clock,
Some to the wheel and some to the rock;
Some to make hay and some to shear corn,
And you and I will keep the bed warm.

Similar versions appeared in collections of rhymes throughout the 19th century.

Recordings

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Several versions of the song have been released in the US and the UK. They include:

Other versions

Other versions have included the following:

References

  1. ^ Halliwell, James Orchard (1849). Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales. London: John Russell Smith. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-0370012551. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  2. ^ Robert B. Waltz & David G. Engle. "Lavender Blue". Traditional Ballad Index. California State University, Fresno. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  3. See also here
  4. (Traditional) (1674–1679). "Diddle, Diddle (or The Kind Country Lovers)". Traditional Music Library. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  5. ^ Opie, Iona; Opie, Peter (1951). The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford University Press. pp. 265–7. ISBN 9780198691112.
  6. James Robert Parish, Michael R. Pitts, Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor, Taylor & Francis, 2003, p.404
  7. "Billboard Best Sellers Chart History – "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)" by Sammy Kaye 1949". Song Database. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  8. "Song artist 62 - Dinah Shore". The World's Music Charts. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  9. "Billboard Hot 100 Chart History – "Lavender-Blue" by Sammy Turner 1959". Song Database. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  10. "Sammy Turner Top Songs". Music VF. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  11. Discogs
  12. "Lavender, Marillion Lyrics.com
  13. Simply Eighties
  14. "Marillion". Official Charts. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  15. "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) by Vera Lynn". Second Hand Songs. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
  16. "Lavender's Blue" at Discogs
  17. "Tommy Bruce Top Songs". Music VF. Retrieved April 11, 2021.

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