O April, April, Cool and Fresh
Songs for Spring, from our Music Archive
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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.
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Welcome Christmas!
Christmas, New Year and Epiphany Carols
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All the Birds, Two by Two
All the birds, amàn amàn,
the birds nest two by two,
all the birds two by two,
the swallow with his mate.
The lonesome ni...
Song
Beam, Dear Moon
– Come on beam, dear moon,
shine, moon dear, and light the way to my love.
Beam high and low, for it’s muddy and wet;
beam...
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...
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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
May
May's come,
May's come and spring,
summer’s come
when the perfumed roses bloom.
I’ve a white rose I want to dye
and if I...
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 son...
Selections
Songs for the Grape Harvesting
From our unpublished collection The Earth’s Three Bounties
Song
The Maid Climbed up to the Summer Pasture
The maid climbed up to the summer pasture, my little bird,
to become a shepherdess, come, come I say!
to become a shepherde...
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...
Song
Whoever Saw a Tree of Green
Whoever saw a tree of green,
with eyes of black and a blond sheen
and royal blue leaves to boot,
eyes black, eyebrows dark...