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Score available from
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(arranged by D W Solomons: for men's voices (in G), mixed voices (in B) and women's voices (in D))
These arrangements of the song skip from 5 to 12 in order to avoid tiring the audience
("Let's not make them listen to the lot!")
This version in G is performed here by Matthew Curtis


An earlier version using more or less the same images, sung by the dwschorale in B is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszDGMtFRDY

There are so many possible interpretations of this song, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Grow_the_Rushes,_O
for the latest research online
I have used images reflecting some of the theories there and a few ideas of my own

1 Lonesome Penguin (A gentoo penguin Pygoscelis papua all alone at Grahamland, Antarctica) (by Henrike Mühlichen - Raktajino on Wikimedia - Creative

Commons)
2 Nymphaea alba (White Water Lily) - Magnus Maske (on Wikimedia - Creative Commons)
3 Peter James and John (ie the three apostles who claimed preference) (public domain)
4 The four evangelists Jacob Jordaens (public domain)
5 The mezuzah (from mezuzah scrolls at wikimedia - creative commons)
6 The vessels at the wedding at Cana - Marten de Vos (public domain)
7 Nebra Scheibe (including the Pleiades) - D Bachmann (wikimedia - creative commons)
8 Hyades - Tdvance wikimedia creative commons
9 St Martin window at Tours Cathedral (public domain)
10 Moses with the tablets of the 10 commandments - Rembrandt (public domain)
11 the 12 apostles Sergey Serous - minus one apostle (presumably Judas)
12 the 12 apostles Sergey Serous - Wikimedia Creative Commons

Rushes by Mike K Smith (Creative Commons)

The 12 verses cumulated become

Twelve for the twelve Apostles
Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven,
Ten for the ten commandments,
Nine for the nine bright shiners,
Eight for the April Rainers
Seven for the seven stars in the sky
Six for the six proud walkers
Five for the symbols at your door
Four for the Gospel makers,
Three, three, the rivals,
Two, two, the lily-white boys,
All dressed up in green oh
One is one and all alone
And evermore shall be so.