You are at: Home page Her Work Selections O April, April, Cool and Fresh
O April, April, Cool and Fresh
Songs for Spring, from our Music Archive
Information
Songs 1. O April, April, Cool and Fresh and 2. The May Month are from the album Easter Songs.
Song 3. It's in May the Partridge Sings is from the album I Tread the Earth Gently.
Song 4. May is Come is from the album The Great North Wind and Other Traditional Songs for Children.
Song 5. Kalafatiko is from the album Songs of Dame Sea.
Song 6. You, My Little Roses is from the album Of Nature and of Love.
See also
The choir | Activities
Welcome Christmas!
Christmas, New Year and Epiphany Carols
We suggest the following carols to the oldest to recall their memories and to instruct the youngers into the wisdom and magic...
Song
A Partridge I Did Tame
A partridge I did tame, through April ‘til May came,
the tamer she became, the more she did complain.
All afire deep inside...
Song
If I Had an Orchard
If I had an orchard,
an orchard studded with bitter oranges.
Studded with bitter oranges,
bitter oranges all covered in bl...
Song
In a Fine Orchard
In a fine orchard, laurel and myrtle quarrel.
And myrtle, amàn-amàn, myrtle says to laurel…
And myrtle says to laurel, -You...
Song
It Is May Month
Necrolatric Dance of Spring
It is May month, the spring is here and soon it will be summer,
but now the deer are pleasuring and finding spring content.
...
Song
Little Lemon Tree
Hey little lemon tree, short little lemon tree
from Vissàni, heavy with fruit,
I didn’t see you last night and now I’m sick...
Song
Little White Bird A-Sitting
There sits my little white bird, my fair white bird,
sitting on a green branch.
A white bird sitting on a green branch
gro...
Song
Maria’ S Gone to Pick Some Lilac
Maria’s gone to pick some lilac, a nightingale is singing,
she goes to gather lilac blossom in vineyards and in paddocks.
A...
Song
May Is Come
May is come and bids me reap but for his sake
I shall not go and darken in the sun.
May, dear May with the flowers
and s...
Song
O April, April, Cool and Fresh
O April, April cool and fresh, dear George, a worthy scholar,
May month so finely decked with flowers, dear George, so finel...
Song
Ploughed Garden of Mine
Orchard, my orchard, orchard ploughed
all pruned and daisy-strewed.
You’ve flower beds all around,
and marjoram in the gro...
Song
River, Dear River of Mine
River, dear river of mine,
river, my river, when you fill.
River, my river, when you fill
and crash, and crash and swell.
...
Song
Up Upon the Rose
The partridge built her nest
amàn amàn, high up upon the rose-bush
And the startled partridge started,
and the roses to th...