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Posted By: Jim Carroll
20-Apr-20 - 02:55 AM
Thread Name: Folk songs mentioning the month of May?
Subject: RE: Folk songs mentioning the month of May?
May day is the most important date in the Irish folklore calandar
That is when ariigs of the'May Bush' were brought int the homes to ensure good luck for the year; usually hawthorn, but here in Clare, the yellow Broom
The longest song I found specifically on May is a seventeen verse broadside published in Evans's Old Ballads Vol. 2 (1778)
Entitled 'The Story of Ill May Day' "in the time of Henry VIII, and why it is so called; and how Queen Catherine begged the lived of two thousand London Apprentices"
Google 'A Collection of Songs and Ballads Relative to the London'
Jim Carroll