Green Grow the Lilacs
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Green Grow the Lilacs is a folk song of Irish origin that was popular in the United States during the mid-1800.
The song title is familiar as the source of an extremely dubious popular etymology for the word gringo, supposedly being a Hispanicization of "green grow," which Mexican certainly could have heard U.S. troops singing during the Mexican-American War.
The song appears in the 1931 play of the same name by Lynn Riggs. Green Grow the Lilacs became the basis of the libretto for the...
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