Lyr Req: Unite and Unite (Cornish May Carol)

Subject: Req: Unite and Unite (Trad)
From:
Date: 05 Jan 98 - 04:42 PM

Req: Unite and Unite (Trad. Please e.mail. Thanks!!!

Subject: RE: Req: Unite and Unite
From:
Date: 05 Jan 98 - 05:27 PM

Sure it isn't Untie and Untie?

Subject: RE: Req: Unite and Unite
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 06 Jan 98 - 12:47 PM

Look for "Padstow" in the DT and see if thar's what you are after.

Bob S.

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CORNISH MAY CAROL (DT Lyrics)

Oss, Oss, Wee Oss

Unite and unite and let us all unite
For summer is a-come unto day
And wither we are going, we will all unite
In the merry morning of May

With a merry ring and now the joyful spring
O give us a cup of ale and the merrier we will sing

The young men of Padstow, they might if they would
They might have built a ship and gilded it all in gold

The young women of Padstow, they might if they would
They might have built a garland of the white rose and the red

Where are those young men that now here should dance?
For some they are in England and some they are in France

O where is St. George?
O where is he o ?
He's out in his longboat
All on the salt sea-o
Up flies the kite
Down falls the lark-o
And Ursula Birdhood she had an old ewe
And she died in her own park-o

With a merry ring and now the joyful spring
So happy are those little birds and the merrier we will sing

from the May celebration at Padstow, Cornwall
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Subject: RE: Req: Unite and Unite
From: Bob Schwarer
Date: 06 Jan 98 - 05:27 PM

Sorry. Padstow is not in the DT.

Steeleye Span did a version. The words are in the liner notes.(at least on the LP). For the Rankin family version go to:

http://www chatsubo.com/rankins/albums/lyrics/ padstow_lyrics.html

For an 1895 version go to:

http://bi.org/~bje1001/maysongs.html

This last one has a LOT of verses.

Bob S

Subject: RE: Req: Unite and Unite
From: Wolfgang Hell
Date: 07 Jan 98 - 04:22 AM

Bob, your first message was correct. I entered "padstow" and I got one hit starting with the words "Unite and unite". Thanks, however, for the fine links.
Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Req: Unite and Unite
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Jan 98 - 04:26 AM

the Steeleye Span version is here (Mainly Norfolk)

Subject: RE: Req: Unite and Unite
From:
Date: 07 May 03 - 03:32 PM

Am looking for music to Cornish May Day carol; Unite and unite etc.Can you help?

Thanks,

    Bob

Subject: RE: Req: Unite and Unite
From: MMario
Date: 07 May 03 - 03:37 PM

it's here

e-mailed.

The page linked above has a link to the midi. The midi can be used by many programs to produce sheet music.

Subject: RE: Req: Unite and Unite
From: breezy
Date: 07 May 03 - 04:07 PM

Does it include the 'night song' too?
Get to Padstow next may-day eve, its a Friday so Saturday will heave!
It was fairly quiet this year.
After a day of it you wont want to hear it again for a year.
They always have copies available.
Oss oss wee Oss