Maria’ S Gone to Pick Some Lilac
See also
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
It’s Eastertime
Easter Dance
It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one,
the greatest of all feasts,
you fair-haired ones, you ...
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
One Easter Day, One Sunday
The Sinner
One Easter Day, one Sunday,
on a holy day, my little bird,
a mother was adorning her son
one Saturday from dawn to dusk,
...
Song
All Attend at Church
Easter Dance
All attend –for sake of Christ– all attend at church
to exclaim that ‘Christ is Risen!’ and to hear the Word.
As for me, th...
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
My Son, Why Dont You Go and Wash?
Necrolatric Dance of Easter
– My son, why don’t you go and wash, why don’t you change your clothing?
Today, my child, is Easter Day, you’ll go and take ...
Song
Song of Saint George
Easter Dance
O sainted George and honoured master, rider of the grey horse,
accoutred with a trusty sword and with a golden lance,
it is...
Song
The May Month
The May month with its wealth of flowers and April with its dews,
I’ve got you on my mind again and didn’t sleep last night....
Song
The Son of the Armenian
The son of the Armenian boasted, my beautiful blue eyes,
to a pasha, his master, sing my lovely nightingale.
– My master, I...
Song
The Song of Saint George
A monster plagues our land curled up in a deep well.
We feed it poor townsfolk every morn and every night,
but when a day g...
Song
Tricked by the Birds
Tricked I was, tricked by the birds,
tricked by the nightingales of spring.
They tricked me and told me I would never die.
...
Song
Why, It Was Easter Day
Easter Dance Song
Why, it was Easter Day, good George, t’was Easter,
the day of happy tidings, my good George,
a day of happy tidings, dear D...