In the folk song 'All Around My Hat' what will the singer have arranged round the hat?
All Around My Hat (song) Scotland and Canada, all seafaring nations. In Ireland it has been adapted to the Irish Republican movement. The Bodleian Library has a version. This version has some cockney words. A traditional version (sometimes known as "I will wear the Green Willow") in common use in the 1950s and 1960s was: My love she was fair and my love she was kind too And many were the happy hours, between my love and me I never could refuse her, whatever she'd a mind to And now she's far away, far o'er the stormy sea. "All 'round my hat I will wear
All Around My Hat (song) a" [or: "the"] green willow "All 'round my hat for a twelve month and a day "If anybody asks me the reason why I wear it "It's all because my true love is far, far away." Will my love be true and will my love be faithful? Or will she find another swain to court her where she's gone? The men will all run after her, so pretty and so graceful And leave me here lamenting, lamenting all alone. "All 'round my hat I will wear a green willow "All 'round my hat for a twelve month and a day