50 songs set in the month of May (there are reasons for any apparent duplications) Make yourself a great playlist! —Arise Arise - Kerfuffle “To the Ground” —Child #299 As I Roved Out on a May Morning (17 come Sunday variant) - Joe Heaney “The Road from Connemara” —As I Roved Out (“a diamond ring I own I gave you”) - June Tabor —Cambridgeshire May Carol (the hedges and the fields)- Kyle Carey “One Morning in May” —Ce Moys de May - Shira Kammen “The Almanac” —Now is the Month of Maying - Alfred Deller & Deller Consort —Gathering Rushes in the Month of May - Anne Briggs —As I Was A-Walking One May Summer’s Morning (Roud 586) - Carolyne Hughes & Daughter “I’m a Romany Rai” —Hal-an-Tow - Broceliande —In May, That Lusty Season - Libana “A Circle is Cast” —La rousée du joly mois de may - The Toronto Consort “All in a Garden Green” —A Little Pretty Bonny Lass - The Stairwell Carolers “Audite Nova” —Child #043 May Blooming Field - Cordelia’s Dad “Double Live” —The May Carol - Kyle Carey “One Morning in May” —May Carol - Shira Kammen “The Almanac” —May Day Carol - Anahata & Mary Humphries “Song Links 2” —The May Day Carol - Jean Ritchie - “Carols for all Seasons” —May Song - Martin Carthy “Because It’s There” —Northhill May Song - John Roberts, Tony Barrand et al “To Welcome in the Spring” —May Morning (Coo Coo As I Me Walkèd) - Dorothy Dino Rice —Month of May (Making Hay) - John Roberts, Tony Barrand et al “To Welcome in the Spring” —May Song (Hail Hail the First of May) - Beggars’ Velvet “Lady of Autumn” —Now Is the Month of Maying - The King’s Singers “All at once well met “ —Now the lusty spring is seen - Toronto Consort “All in a garden green” —O lusty May - Toronto Consort “All in a Garden Green” —One May Morning (Not A Day Too Young) - Louis Killen “The Bird in the Bush” —Padstow May Song - Ian Marshall “21 Songs of Cornwall” —Swinton May Song - The Watersons “For Pence and Spicy Ale” —Voici venir le joli mai - Jaques Douai “File la laine” —Voici venir le joli mai - Malicorne “Almanach” —In May, That Lusty Season - The Heath Sisters “Anthology” —May Morning Dew (How Pleasant in Winter) - Joe and Kathy Bly “Cíana —Voici le mois de mai - Evelyne Paris and Frdérique Paris - “Anthologie de la chanson française: Rites, magies et miracles —May Day Carol - Alan Mills “More Songs to Grow ON” —Hal an Tow - Chris Moore “Gift from the Universe” —C’est le mai - Malicorne “En public” —My Husband’s Got No Courage In Him - Maddy Prior & June Tabor “Silly Sisters” —Bold Fisherman - Tim Hart & Maddy Prior “Heyday” —The Bonny Black Hare - A.L. Lloyd “The Bird In the Bush” —In da Moarnin of May-o, isle of Yell - Elizabeth Morewood “Traditional Shetland Songs” —Je me suis levé - Didier Hébert “Anthologie de la chanson française: Rites etc” —Le mai de Clerieux - Gabriel Yacoub ibid —One Morning in May (Unfortunate Rake) - Texas Gladden 1941 “A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings” —The Queen of May - Shirley Collins “Classic Celtic Music from Smithsonian Folkways” —The May Song (Good Morning) - Jeff Wesley “It was on a Market Day” —A May Day Carol (Bellman) - Richard Dyer-Bennet “Vol 4” —Marions les roses (chant de quête) - Malicorne “Quintessence” —Ce Fu en Mai - June Tabor “Apples” —In da Moarnin o Mey-o, isle of Unst - Elizabeth Morewood “Traditional Shetland Songs” —Child #004 On the First Morning in May (Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight) - Steven Griffith
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