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Posted By: GUEST,Lucy Davies
10-Mar-10 - 09:06 AM
Thread Name: Req:Hush there's a rustling-Queen May/drawing room
Subject: Origins: Hush there's a rustling
I'm trying to find out the remaining lines of the second verse of this old poem/song which was sung on May Day in Huntingdon in the 1940s and North Bucks possibly as early as the 1910s. Also anything about the melody.
The first verse and next two lines go : Hush there's a rustling of silken dresses
Queen's maid's holding a drawing room
Come smell the fragrance of purple lilac
Come catch the glinting of golden broom
Sweet apple blossom is full of blushes
Hawthorn we see like a drift of snow
The laburnum in yellow, velvet
Passes and gracefully curtseys low.
Haughtily stand all her chestnut sisters
Dressed overall in their creams and browns.
Can anyone help?
Thanks. Lucy