Early one morning just as the sun was rising
I heard a maiden singing in the valley below

Chorus
Oh don't deceive me oh never leave me
How could you use a poor maiden so

Sweet are the lilies and fair are the roses
I culled from the garden to bind on your brow

Thus sang the maiden her sorrows bewailing
Thus sang the maiden in the valley below

Or something close - it is a song my mother sang, and I have never written down, thinking that I would never forget it, but it seems that even that is fading.

The old radio program 'Toytown' used 'parade of the tin soldiers' as its theme tune. There was Larry the lamb and Dennis the dachund - Mr Growser, a policeman, perhaps a Mayor -

The poor man who wrote the tune was a German, and Jewish. He was tortured by the Gestapo and died.