JOCKEY TO THE FAIR , Roud Number: 3344
’Twas on the morn of sweet May-day, When nature painted all things gay, Taught birds to sing, and lambs to play, And gild the meadows fair; Young Jockey, early in the dawn, Arose and tripped it o’er the lawn;
Jockey to the Fair - Archer Goode, from Glostrad http://glostrad.com/jockey-to-the-fair-2 / Jocky to the Fair – Edmund Henneberry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQNxd8BFLQ Lyrics and information from The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, Edited by Robert Bell https://www.gutenberg.org/files/649/649-h/649-h.htm#page245 Ballad sheet, information and instrumental tune recording from Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project https://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/show/88 Jockey to the Fair Lyrics from Musica International https://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/english/jockeyto.htm MUDCAT : Lyr Req: Jockey to the Fair /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=67201
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