Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Rattlin' Bog is a popular Irish folk song about a bog in a valley, and its contents. The adjective rattlin' is an abbreviation of 'rattling' which in the context of this song, means 'splendid'. The song is a cumulative song, similar to The Twelve Days of Christmas, as it has a list at the end of each verse which grows throughout the piece. In some performances of the song, the speed is constantly increased, in the same way that The Sailor's Hornpipe is sometimes played. There is some variation in how the lyrics are documented. Some versions record the first word of the chorus as either 'Oh' or 'Ho' or just 'O' followed by the second word as either 'ro' or 'row'. Since it is a folk song, it has been transmitted over generations orally and aurally so all these versions coexist and it may be impossible and even nonsensical to seek a single authoritative version of the song's lyrics.Another song, known by various versions of the name And the Green Grass Grew All Around, is thought to have originally derived from The Rattlin' Bog or shared a common origin with it."@en }
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- The_Rattlin_Bog abstract "The Rattlin' Bog is a popular Irish folk song about a bog in a valley, and its contents. The adjective rattlin' is an abbreviation of 'rattling' which in the context of this song, means 'splendid'. The song is a cumulative song, similar to The Twelve Days of Christmas, as it has a list at the end of each verse which grows throughout the piece. In some performances of the song, the speed is constantly increased, in the same way that The Sailor's Hornpipe is sometimes played. There is some variation in how the lyrics are documented. Some versions record the first word of the chorus as either 'Oh' or 'Ho' or just 'O' followed by the second word as either 'ro' or 'row'. Since it is a folk song, it has been transmitted over generations orally and aurally so all these versions coexist and it may be impossible and even nonsensical to seek a single authoritative version of the song's lyrics.Another song, known by various versions of the name And the Green Grass Grew All Around, is thought to have originally derived from The Rattlin' Bog or shared a common origin with it.".