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English: The Rose Tree appeared around the mid 1700's and is popular throughout the English speaking world, especially in New England, Ireland (known as "Portlairge", after that town on the East Coast of the Republic), and Scotland, where it is known as "The False Knight on the Road", where a child answers the devil's riddles. It was featured as a song in the play by William Shield, "The Poor Soldier Boy". It's been played so widely that it has taken on different names according to geography. Other names include: "Bhiosa La I BPort Lairge", Cups And Saucers, I'll Cloot My Johnny's Breeches, Let's Pet The Pope, Little May Cullinane, O, I Courted A Farmer's Daughter, The Old Lea Rig, and Paddy's Land. Usually played with the 'Dashing White Sergeant' throughout England and Scotland, its played as a Polka in the USA and as something between a march and a reel in England. Most every ceilidh band in Mainland Britain includes this tune in their repertoire.