HAM/05/32/37	The Trees Grow So High
HAM-02-239.gif 	Hammond's field notes - tunes
HAM-05-093.gif 	Purslow's transcription - tune
HAM-05-094.gif 	Purslow's transcription - words

HAM-02-239.gif 	Hammond's field notes - tunes
[page printed with, top right:] 37
[the first tune is written in two systems]
[left of title:] Mixolydian 534
[title:] 'The Trees'
[right of title:] Mrs Russell of Upwey
[to the left of the first stave:] V 1/
[the lowest note in the penultimate bar is marked with a leader line to text in the right margin:] B flattened (once.
[above end of final stave:] Words
[second system:]
	[above the left end of the first stave of the second system:] Mixolydian
	[left of first stave:] Another verse
	[very feint, after last bar of tune:] Words DVI p [undeciphered]
	[and below that:] cp tune [undeciphered]
	[this second system has lyrics under the anacrusis and first 5 bars:]
	At the age of 14 he was a mar-ried man, At the age of 15 he was the
	fa-ther of a son, At the age of six-teen
	[in the penultimate bar:]
		[below notes 3,4 & 5:] a 'slur' containing (probably) the number 4
		[below note 7:] Bb [flat symbol]

HAM-05-093.gif 	Purslow's transcription - tune
[left of title:] 534.
[title:] The Trees They Grow so High.
[below right end of title:] D805
[right of title:] Mrs. Russell, Upwey
[above first stave:] Verse 1)
[in the penultimate bar of verse 1, notes 3, 4 & 5 are marked as a triplet]
[the lowest note in that bar is marked with a leader line to text at the end of the verse:] B flattened once (H.E.D.H.)
[before G clef on next stave:] Another Verse
[this verse has lyrics under the anacrusis and first 5 bars:]
	At the age of 14 he was a mar-ried man, At the age of 15 he was the
	fa-ther of a son, At the age of six-teen
[initialled, bottom right:] FEP

HAM-05-094.gif 	Purslow's transcription - words
THE TREES THEY GROW SO HIGH.
[below title, in hand:] D805
[then, on the right:] Mrs. Marina Russell,
Upwey, Dorset.
Jan/Feb. 1907.
	At the age of fourteen he was a married man,
	At the age of fifteen he was the father of a son,
	At the age of six-teen.....

Apart from the fragment, noted under the music, there
does not appear to be a text noted from Mrs. Russell. Hammond
refers to that of Mrs. Hann. (D.489).
						F.E.P.

[This material prepared by P J Headford, Nov 2010]