No, it's not the "rushes", that's a different song. And I doubt it's a skin disease because if it's green it would be a fungus, not a rash. But you're probably right about Solomon - thanks JTT.

Here is the verse - the entire song is in the DT (but you have to search for it; if you click on the title, you get a different song).

Give me a cannie hour at e'en
My arms around my dearie, o
The wisest man the world e'er saw
Dearly loved the lassies, o

The last verse is really cute:

Old nature swears the lovely dears
Her noblest works she classes, o
Her apprentice hand she tried on man
And then she made the lassies, o

Altan does a good version on Another Sky.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 13-Oct-02.