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Thread #32490   Message #428505
Posted By: GUEST,JohnB
29-Mar-01 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: May Song
Subject: RE: May Song
The words above are pretty much the same as what I know as the "Bedford May Carol" at least for the first threee verses. My fourth verse goes Arise arise my fair pretty maid out of your dozy dream and go down to your dairy house and fetch us a dish of cream If not a dish of your fresh cream a jug of your brown beer and if we return for to tarry in your town we'll call on you next year. The final verse is then similar. It could be that the miserable verses came from a different song. I don't know what the tune is like for the Martin Carthy version as I have never heard it. JohnB