Midsummer Carol
Source; Songs of the West by S. Baring-Gould
Words and tune collected from William Aggett, an old crippled labourer at Chagford, Dartmoor, Devon, 1870

'Twas early I walked on a midsummer morning,
The fields and the meadows were decked and gay,
The small birds were singing, the woodlands a-ringing,
'Twas early in the morning, at breaking of day,
I will play on my pipes, I will sing thee my lay!
It is early in the morning, at breaking of day.

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