| Author | Topic: Add: A Sweet Country Life | |
| dmcg | Posted - 05 Jul 08 - 07:41 am | |
A sweet country life is most pleasant and charming, All for to walk abroad on a fine summer's morning, Bright Phoebus did a-shine and the hills was adorning As Molly she sat a-milking on a fair summer's morning. No fiddle, no flute, nor hautboy, nor spinnet Is not to be compared to the lark or the linnet. Down as I did lie all among the green rushes 'Twas there I did hear the charms of the blackbirds and thrushes. Source: Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs, Vol 2, p 184, No 250, ed Maud Karpeles , Oxford University Press, 1974 Notes: Sung by William Henry Watts at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, 11 April 1908 | ||
| Malcolm Douglas |
Posted - 05 Jul 08 - 10:52 am | |
At Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: A sweet country life | ||