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Thread #169613   Message #4172794
Posted By: GeoffLawes
22-May-23 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: Any May songs?
Subject: RE: Any May songs?
JOCKEY TO THE FAIR , Roud Number: 3344

’Twas on the morn of sweet May-day,
When nature painted all things gay,
Taught birds to sing, and lambs to play,
And gild the meadows fair;
Young Jockey, early in the dawn,
Arose and tripped it o’er the lawn;


Jockey to the Fair - Archer Goode, from Glostrad   
http://glostrad.com/jockey-to-the-fair-2 /
Jocky to the Fair – Edmund Henneberry     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQNxd8BFLQ
Lyrics and information from The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, Edited by Robert Bell    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/649/649-h/649-h.htm#page245
Ballad sheet, information and instrumental tune recording from Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project     https://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/88
Jockey to the Fair Lyrics from Musica International    https://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/english/jockeyto.htm
MUDCAT : Lyr Req: Jockey to the Fair    /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=67201