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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 May 21 - 08:13 AM BANKS OF CLAUDY Twas on one summer's evening all in the month of May Down by a flow'ry garden where Betsy did stray. I overheard a damsel in sorrow to complain, All for her absent lover that ploughs the raging main. Claudy Banks has the distinction of being the first song ever collected for the English Folk Song Society, when Mrs. Kate Lee wrote it down during a visit to James 'Brasser' Copper and his brother Tom in 1897. Finest Kind Copper Family Thanks henryp Claudy Banks · Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-mbMZnt8g Loreena McKennitt Banks Of Claudy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8VnerKx_lI The Young Tradition -The Banks of the Claudy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KebRDMa7lyc Banks of Claudy (Martyn Wyndham-Read & Iris Bishop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_xmAUU3Sw Mainly Norfolk info: https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/claudybanks.html MUDCAT Lyr Add: Claudy Banks/Where are the Claudy Banks? /mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1204 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 14 May 21 - 07:42 AM The Old Garden Gate As I walked out one May morning So early in the spring I placed my back against the old garden gate And heard my true love sing Collected by RVW from Mr Broomfield, West Horndean, Essex, 4 December 1903, the same day that he collected his first folk song, Bushes and Briars, from Mr Charles Pottipher in Ingrave. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 13 May 21 - 07:48 PM HYMNUS EUCHARISTICUS Hymnus Eucharisticus-Magdalen College Choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV2PiJaX25U Link to MAY MORNING CAROL posted below |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 13 May 21 - 06:57 PM THANK you henryp PRETTY CAROLINE Pretty Caroline - Ellen Powell (1908) [traditional English folk song recorded on phonograph] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhqFORX2pxE Pretty Caroline - Chris Baldwin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sodWWSQTA5w Lyrics and info on Wiltshire Community History site https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getfolk.php?id=434 MUDCAT: Lyr Req: Pretty Caroline /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=67065 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 13 May 21 - 03:48 PM Pretty Caroline From Williams, Alfred MS collection No Mi 677 Wiltshire Council One morning in the month of May when brightly shone the sun, Upon the banks of Tilbury stream there sat a lovely one, She did appear a goddess fair, her dark brown hair did shine, It shaded the neck and bosom white of pretty Caroline. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 13 May 21 - 06:24 AM THE HAPPY CLOWN Just added; The Happy Clown Nice, jolly 6/8, with words attributed to Graves. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 13 May 21 - 04:37 AM GREEN BUSHES “As I was a-walking one morning in May” Mainly Norfolk song info: https://mainlynorfolk.info/joseph.taylor/songs/greenbushes.html Green Bushes Margaret Christl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK6lfI63aI4 The Green Bushes · Geoff Ling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T4FZB5dnaU&t=68s Down by the Green Bushes · Bob Copper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrJwmRBjq7o Green Bushes · Cathie O'Sullivan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndee9BEokYg |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 12 May 21 - 09:59 AM THA MO GHAOIL AIR ÀIRD A' CHUAIN Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird A' Chuain~Harp and Singing-Tiffany Schaefer - Harp & Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NGyo1esRg Tha Mo Ghaol Air Àird a' Chuain -Julie Fowlis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJQgHlXMB3Y MUDCAT - Origins: Tha Mo Ghaol Air Aird A' Chuain /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=163391#top |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Felipa Date: 12 May 21 - 08:09 AM Tha mo ghaoil air Àird a' Chuain begins with the line, "Feasgar ciùin an tùs a' Chèitein"- "[on] A quiet evening early in May" |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: JHW Date: 12 May 21 - 05:43 AM Just remembered 'At Boulavogue as the sun was setting by bright May meadows of Shelmalier' In my early days I sang rebel songs but ceased when the 'troubles' started. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 May 21 - 05:30 PM THE DUSTBOWL 11th May 1934 A huge dust storm is spotted moving from the U.S. Midwest. The dust storm was 1,500 miles long, 900 miles across and two miles high I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTnVMulDTYA Woody Guthrie - Talking Dustbowl Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkAxuqrVNBM Billy Bragg - I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SCCPIXcZSQBR> Woody Guthrie - Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good to Know You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cudNm4r9NKo Dust Bowl Refugee-- Woody Guthrie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ehYkr0NhU Woody Guthrie - Dust Can't Kill Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MLCtwmCebA |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 11 May 21 - 10:37 AM THE BONNY LABOURING BOY “As I roved out one May morning all in the blooming spring, I overheard a maid complain and grievous did she sing. How cruel were her parents; they did her so annoy, For they would not let her marry her bonny labouring boy. ” The Bonny Labouring Boy · Shirley Collins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veZMUSBlrQU The Bonny Labouring Boy · Harry Cox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy1g_RFcdLY The Bonny Labouring Boy · Bob Blake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZdMQCq9pmU The Bonny Labouring Boy · Jackie Oates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNvmQWBbMRY Mainly Norfolk Lyrics & info "The Bonny Labouring Boy" https://mainlynorfolk.info/shirley.collins/songs/thebonnylabouringboy.html |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 10 May 21 - 06:36 AM 10 May 1857 Sepoy Rebellion / Indian Mutiny began Broadside Ballad entitled 'Jessie's Dream at Lucknow' http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search/theme/India%20-%20 Sepoy%20 Rebellion%2C%201857-1858/?query=&f Themes=India%20-%20Sepoy% Broadside lyrics for 'Jessie's Dream' at Word on the Street https://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/view/?id=15105&transcript=1 I couldn't find any on-line recordings or any other songs on this subject? |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GerryM Date: 08 May 21 - 08:38 AM MERA MAGIOU Mera Magioú (A Day in May), lyrics by Yannis Ritsos, music by Mikis Theodorakis. Here is a recording. Liner notes to the CD, From Greece With Love, give the lyrics, in English translation, as You went away on a day in May, my son; I lost you in the Spring which you loved so much. You went up onto the terrace And greedily drank the daylight with your eyes. You told me about the great world In your sweet, manly voice, And you promised me that one day It would belong to both of us. But now you have been extinguished, And my light has been extinguished, too. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 May 21 - 03:46 AM THE CHARTIST ANTHEM The Chartist Anthem - Chumbawamba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRwJZFoJmw Mudcat; Origins: Songs from the Chartist movement /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=99668 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 08 May 21 - 03:43 AM MAY 8 1838 The launch of The People's Charter THE SONG OF THE LOW Mainly Norfolk song info https://mainlynorfolk.info/martin.carthy/songs/thesongofthelowerclasses.html The Song of the Lower Classes · Martin Carthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zjZ8OzGik Song of the Lower Classes · Adam Rees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-u5gnl0yFA Song of the Lower Classes · Ewan McLennan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIsl5THDyhM Song Of The Lower Classes, Gurt Lush Choir, Holy Nativity Church, Knowle, Bristol, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hkDfeB9ZBo |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 07 May 21 - 09:25 AM WHILE STROLLING THROUGH THE PARK ONE DAY While strolling in the park one day All in the merry month of May A roguish pair of eyes, they took me by surprise In a moment my poor heart was stole away! While Strolling Through The Park One Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiLFsocpwRQ While Strolling Through the Park - Barbershop Quartet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noBLXQY4yuA Fountain in the Park (1884)- Sheet Music Singer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55kqvyTI5c |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 May 21 - 06:00 AM WHEN THE LUSITANIA WENT DOWN May 7, 1915 The British passenger ship Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, losing 1,198 of its 1,924 passengers. The attack hastened neutral America's entry into World War I. "When the Lusitania Went Down" Columbia A1772 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cRaYYZzmVw |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 06 May 21 - 05:32 AM THIS SWEET AND MERRY MONTH OF MAY This Sweet and Merry Month of May · The Sixteen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGPh2OI_baU William Byrd: Sweet and Merry Month of May - The Festival Choir of Madison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkbOojg0-x8 The First Sett of Italian Madrigalls Englished: No. 28, This Sweet and Merry Month of May - The King's Singers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKRdbYzh9Hg |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Date: 06 May 21 - 05:00 AM Yes. The first one is the song I referred to. Spot on. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 May 21 - 07:14 PM DOWN BY THE GREEN GROVES aka The Birds In The Spring One May morning early I chanced for to roam And strolled through the field by the side of the grove. Mainly Norfolk:Song Lyrics & Info https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/thebirdsinthespring.html Down by the Green Groves · Peter Bellamy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_OhjZSGaUU The Birds In The Spring by the Copper Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpMNxVRSu3I&list=PLufSRA7tKQp4hrXigqOnLffeCnvpuE7SH&index=2 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 May 21 - 12:00 PM MERRY MONTH OF MAY - Sam Larner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYKWv6KkC6o&list=PLDof_m84v5PoILBdTR7mehBInwDDphXaA&index=2 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 05 May 21 - 04:51 AM THE JAM ON JERRY’S ROCK Now they buried him quite decently all on the (fifth) of May, And all his brave young comrades o'er his dead form they did pray; The Jam on Jerry's Rock · The Limeliters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DlVKlWvOIc Pete Seeger – The Jam On Gerry's Rocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtpTVXKi5rA Jam on Gerry's Rock · Lissa Schneckenburger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEIOhT0rYYw YouTube video by Banjerholler and sheet music http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/05/gary.htm The Jam On Gerry's Rock · The Wakami Wailers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wEoUSbIwJA Wikipedia: Song Info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_on_Gerry%27s_Rock |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 May 21 - 06:12 PM When I were a little lad in my Catholic primary school, every May we would sing, lustily, Bring Flowers Of The Rarest, in honour of the mother of Jesus. The chorus went: "O Mary we crown thee with blossoms today Queen of the angels and Queen of the May..." It was written by Mary Walsh in Victorian times. Thanks Steve Shaw Here are some performances of BRING FLOWERS OF THE RAREST Bring Flowers Of The Rarest, May Crowning Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTeWWa4J700 Frank Patterson sings Bring Flowers Of The Rarest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFCg2zEToVU Bring Flowers of the Rarest (Queen of the May) - John McDermott https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOH8awmOj4c Lyrics & Info http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/rarest.htm |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Date: 04 May 21 - 11:58 AM QUEEN OF THE MAY I`m quite surprised no one has suggested the Larry McClaughlan song with the chorus line, "For you are my Queen of the May". This one John? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-9NjBAmu40 But probably not this Queen of the May https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_fln4An7G4 From: GUEST,John from Kemsing - PM Date: 06 May 21 - 05:00 AM
Yes. The first one is the song I referred to. Spot on. MUDCAT:Lyr Req: Padstow Queen of the May /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=60993 By Larry McLaughlin
Winter is over and summer has come
Ch: And put your arms round me. I'll dance you away
Skip out o'er the fields and the woods and the dells
We'll breakfast on ale and an old chorus song
When the years have rolled on love and we are both old Queen of the May sung in a car park, Padstowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STf-V1TCyE0&t=4s
Link to post below of THE SECOND DAY OF MAY by Larry McLaughlin |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 May 21 - 09:41 AM Ploughboy's Glory; http://www.joe-offer.com/folkinfo/songs/362.html Source: M Dawney, The Ploughboy's Glory, EFDSS, 1977 Part of the Butterworth collection (IV 261-262; V1a 61; VIIc, 86.) Sung by Mr Knight, Horsham, April 1907. Micheal Dawney wrote: The pitch in V1a, 61 was of G; in VIIc, 86 of Bflat; words and music of the first stanza fitted together by the editor. The song is also known as 'The Lark in the Morn' or 'The Painful Plough', of which there are many versions in Sharp (1974). A version entitled 'The Painful Plough' appears in Broadwood (1983) and entitled 'The Ploughboy' in Williams (1923). There is April, there is May, there is June and July, What a pleasure to see the corn grow. And when August draws nigh, we will reap sheaves and tie, Go down with our scythes for to mow. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 May 21 - 09:25 AM Mainly Norfolk; Sarah McQuaid sang The Wagoner's Lad in 2008 on her CD I Won't Go Home 'Til Morning. She noted: There's another version of The Wagoner's Lad in my well-thumbed copy of Alan Lomax's Folk Songs of North America, credited "As sung by Buell Kazee, Eastern Ky., Folkways 7, 251" and Cecil Sharp gives four different versions in English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. The closest one to mine, melodically and lyrically, is that collected from Mrs. Jane Gentry at Hot Springs, North Carolina, on 14 September 1916 [VWML CJS2/9/242 ]. Mrs. Jane Gentry sings Wagoner's Lad; In old North Carolina I was bred and was born, And in my own county I was a great scorn. As I was a-riding one morning in May, I met as fair damsel as you ever might see. I viewed her features and she pleased me well; I forced all on her my mind for to tell. She quickly consented my bride for to be, But her parents wasn't willing for she to have me. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 May 21 - 09:04 AM The Fisherman Collected from James Punt, East Horndon, Essex by Ralph Vaughan Wiliiams, 1904. https://www.vwml.org/record/RVW2/2/59 1. As I walked out one May morning Down by the riverside And there I saw a fisherman Come rowing down the tide. Thanks ,henryp here is a blue click link to ‘The Fisherman’ manuscript https://www.vwml.org/record/RVW2/2/59 It seems to be a slight variant of the song widely sung as ‘The Bold Fisherman’ ??? THE BOLD FISHERMAN ” As I walked out one May morning Down by the riverside, There I beheld a bold fisherman Come a-rowing with the tide,” Shirley Collins Bold Fisherman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-0ZuCOLCwI The Young Tradition - The Bold Fisherman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Di5QwN3gEQ Link to more about THE BOLD FISHERMAN posted below by henryp Link to Diolch's "Bold Fisherman" posting below |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 04 May 21 - 08:49 AM The Codbanging Song Collected in Harwich, Essex by Ralph Vaughan Williams, as sung by Charles Benham, April 1904 Additional verses from Bob Hart of Suffolk. https://www.vwml.org/record/RoudFS/S231479 1. Come, come my lads and listen here A fisherman's song you soon shall hear What I did and undergo When first I went a cod-banging O Chorus To my lal fol the day Riddle all day This is the smacksman's life at sea 2. How well I remember the fourteenth of May A big barque ship she came our way She came our way and she did let fly And the topsail halyards they flew sky high Chorus 3. And now we draw near Harwich pier The young and the old folks they both draw near To see us get our fish on deck And crack their skulls with a little short stick Chorus 4. And now my song it is nearly done And I hope that I've offended none But I don't think I've got it complete 'Cos I've only been in the trade about a week Chorus Thanks henryp -Here are some links for COD BANGING Mainly Norfolk: song info https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/codbanging.html Cod Banging · Bob Hart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHlGiOQ771M |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,Jiggers Date: 04 May 21 - 07:30 AM The Burning of Auchindoon (alt spelling Auchindoun), is on my Silly Sisters CD and is sung by June Tabor and Maddy Prior. As I came in by Fiddich side on a May morning I spied Willie Macintosh an hour before the dawning “Turn again, him again, turn again I bid ye If ye burn Auchindoon, Huntly he will head ye.” “Head me or hang me that will never fear me I will burn Auchindoon ere the life leaves me.” As I came in by Fiddich side on a May morning Auchindoon was in a blaze an hour before the dawning Crawing, crawing, for all your crowse crawing You've burnt your crops and tint your wings An hour before the dawning Thanks GUEST,Jiggers here below are some recordings of your song THE BURNING OF AUCHINDOUN Alasdair Roberts - The Burning of Auchindoun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMIa6_6ww0 Moonshine Jelly performing "Burning Auchindoon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnWd2oPlJKs Ed & Will - The Burning of Auchindoun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XsZ2wayrw
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GerryM Date: 04 May 21 - 07:18 AM "Whaddam I Like??" I give up, Jim. What are you like? |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 May 21 - 06:59 AM And his lithp kicked in for the punchline only! :-) |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,Jim Knowledge Date: 04 May 21 - 06:54 AM I `ad my nephew in the cab this morning. I was taking `im and `is mum round to the surgery. They are both going to get 24 `our virus tests. My daughter works in the care business and `e wants to go to Bluewater shopping centre. `e said, "Uncle Jim, do you and the band do May songs?" I said, "Year we `ave quite a few up our sleeves." `e said, "Which ones?" I said, "Well there`s "Hal and To", "The First of May", "Padstow Night Singing", "Following the old `Oss", and one about dancing your sweetheart around, to name but a few." Then `e said, " Do you like "Starwars??" I said, "Well, I`ve seen some of`em" Then `e said, "MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!!" Little Bugger. Whaddam I Like?? |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 04 May 21 - 06:07 AM THE FLORAL DANCE 78 RPM - Peter Dawson - The Floral Dance (1934) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMKJckTods The Floral Dance TERRY WOGAN (with lyrics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0THlRj2msOs |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Steve Shaw Date: 04 May 21 - 05:49 AM Well the Cornish Floral Dance, written by Katie Moss over a hundred years ago, in spite of its mentions of summer nights and summer seas, was actually inspired by the Helston Furry Dance, which takes place every year on May 8. So I'll claim that one for Kernow! I was brought up on the Peter Dawson recording, unsurpassed in m'humble. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 04 May 21 - 05:06 AM MERRY MAY FOLK MUDCAT:Lyr Add: Merry May Folk /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=169782&messages=3#4104629 |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 03 May 21 - 06:22 PM CAMBRIDGE MAY GARLAND SONG Cambridge May Garland Song - Mary Humphreys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QbB3XOW9RM Good morning, lords and ladies, It is the first of May; We hope you like our garland, it is both fine and gay. Refrain To the greenwoods we will go. To the greenwood we will go,go, go, To the greenwood we will go. I’m very glad the spring has come The sun is shine so bright The little birds upon the threes Are singing with delight Refrain The cuckoo sings in April, The cuckoo sings in May, The cuckoo sings in June, In July she flies away. Refrain The roads are very dusty Our shoes are very thin We have a little money-box To put our money in Refrain Bandcamp:Recording and Info https://maryanahata.bandcamp.com/track/cambridge-may-garland-song |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Monique Date: 02 May 21 - 03:58 PM Here is the Oc/French version of the song 3 posts above. LO MES D'ABRIL SE N'ES ANAT Lo mes d'abril se n'es anat Lo mes de mai es arribat (Repic) Eh! Marions les filles, Les filles font bon marier, Les filles font bon marier Quand elles sont gentilles. Botatz la man au nid dels uòus Que cada man ne'n pòrte nòu! (Repic) Io que soi lo pòrta-panièr Portarei lo nid tot entièr! (Repic) S'avètz manhans* a espelir Dieu vos los farà reussir! (Repic) S'avètz filhas a maridar Dieu las vos farà ben plaçar! (Repic) E si nos volètz res donar A vòtra pòrta anam c... ridar!** THE MONTH OF APRIL HAS GONE The month of April has gone The month of May has arrived (Chorus) Hey, let's marry the girls, The girls are good to marry, The girls are good to marry When they're nice. Put your hand into the eggs nest, Let every hand to bring nine! (Chorus) I, who am the basket-carrier, Will carry the whole basket. (Chorus) If you have silk worms (eggs) about to hatch out God will make them succeed! (Chorus) If you have daughters to marry off, God will make you place them well (Chorus) And if you don't want to give us anything At your door we're going to sh…out! (Chorus) *Southern France had an important silk farming production during the 19th century that slowly decreased till WW II when it disappeared. Today's production is anecdotal. **In Canteloube it reads like that but in "Anthologie de la chanson occitane", Cécile Marie, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1975, it's spelled out "cagar" without the "c…ridar" thing which translates beautifully in French as "c… rier" and in English "sh…out". As sung by La Mal Coiffée (a 4 women band) |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Monique Date: 02 May 21 - 02:51 PM You'll find a whole bunch of May songs in French at Chants populaires français.com. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Monique Date: 02 May 21 - 02:49 PM VOICI LE MOIS DE MAI Voici le mois de mai où les fleurs volent au vent (x2) Où les fleurs volent au vent si jolie mignonne, Où les fleurs volent au vent si mignonnement. Le fils du roi s'en va, s'en va les ramassant (x2) S'en va les ramassant si jolie mignonne, S'en va les ramassant si mignonnement. Il en ramasse tant qu'il en remplit ses gants (x2) Qu'il en remplit ses gants si jolie mignonne, Qu'il en remplit ses gants si mignonnement. Il les porte à sa mie pour lui faire un présent (x2) Il les porte à sa mie si jolie mignonne, Il les porte à sa mie si mignonnement. Tenez, tenez, dit-il, tenez voici mes gants (x2) Tenez, tenez mes gants, si jolie mignonne, Tenez, tenez mes gants, si mignonnement. Vous ne les mettrez guère que quatre fois par an (x2) Que quatre fois par an si jolie mignonne, Que quatre fois par an si mignonnement. À Pâques, à la Toussaint, Noël et la Saint-Jean (x2) Noël et la Saint-Jean, si jolie mignonne, Noël et la Saint-Jean si mignonnement. From Vendée- Can be found in "1000 chants 3", J.E. Berthier, Les Presses d'Île de France, 1979, "Anthologie des chants populaires français, III", Joseph Canteloube, Durant & Cie, 1951. HERE COMES THE MONTH OF MAY Here comes the month of May when flowers fly with the wind (x2) Flowers fly with the wind, so nice and pretty, girl Flowers fly with the wind so pretty nicely. The king's son is a-picking, is a-picking them up (x2) Is a-picking them up, so nice and pretty girl, Is a-picking them up, so pretty nicely. He picked so many of them that he filled out his gloves (x2) That he filled out his gloves, so nice and pretty girl, That he filled out his gloves, so pretty nicely. He brings them as a present, a present to his love (x2) A present to his love, so nice and pretty girl, A present to his love, so pretty nicely. Take them, take them he said, take them, here are my gloves (x2) Take them, here are my gloves, so nice and pretty girl, Take them here are my gloves, so pretty nicely. You will seldom wear them, only four times a year Only four times a year, so nice and pretty girl, Only four times a year, so pretty nicely. For Easter, for All Saints, Christmas and St John's Day (x2) Christmas and St John's Day, so nice and pretty girl, Christmas and St John's Day, so pretty nicely. I took it from Mama Lisa's World and I tried to make it singable when I translated it though if you try to sing the translation, you'll see that the stress of the words doesn't always match the tune. As sung by Nana Mouskouri As sung by Hommage aux Aînés (Quebec) As sung by Askolenn |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Monique Date: 02 May 21 - 01:56 PM MARIONS LES ROSES Le mois d'avril s'en est allé Le mois de mai s'est approché (Refrain) Et marions les roses Les roses font un beau bouquet Les roses font un beau bouquet Quand elles sont jolies. Avons passé dedans vos prés Les avons trouvés bien fumés (Refrain) Avons passé dedans vos blés Oh comme ils sont tous bien grainés (Refrain) Mettez la main au nid des œufs Que chaque main en prenne deux (Refrain) Moi qui suis le porte-panier Je prendrais bien le nid entier (Refrain) Si vous n' voulez rien nous donner À la porte nous allons crier. LET'S MARRY THE ROSES The month of April has gone The month of May has drawn near (Chorus) And let's marry the roses, Roses make a beautiful bouquet, Roses make a beautiful bouquet When they're pretty. We went through your fields We found them well manured. (Chorus) We went through your wheat fields Oh, how much/well grainy they are! (Chorus) Put your hand into the eggs nest, Let every hand take two. (Chorus) I, who am the basket carrier, Would gladly take the whole nest (Chorus) If you don't want to give us anything, At your door we're going to shout. Malicorne live rendition (Hurdy gurdy festival in Anost, Summer 2013) The BNF catalogue has a sheet music for 4-voice choir by Guy Delamorinière (1907 - ?). The song is said to be a "collection song" or whatever you call a "chanson de quête" in English = a song you sing whenever you go from door to door to collect money or anything else, here eggs. The song is said to be Provençal but the "Anthologie des chants populaires, 1" by Joseph Canteloube reads that the song is from the Albigeois and Lauragais areas of the Languedoc. The lyrics are a mix of Occitan and French -verses in Òc and chorus in French. The music is said to derive from Filii et filiœ. The Occitan chorus is about marrying girls which makes more sense than marrying roses. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Ged Fox Date: 02 May 21 - 08:18 AM In the pleasant month of May - Ged Fox "In the Pleasant Month of May" from SONGS Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive ; Set to musick By Dr. JOHN BLOW, Mr. HENRY PURCELL, and other Excellent Masters of the Town. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 02 May 21 - 05:11 AM Thanks open mike- Blue clicklinks below STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Official Audio) Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (Official Audio) Recording with Lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHFxncb1gRY |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,Jiggers Date: 02 May 21 - 04:00 AM I also think sprinkling and spring clean so you are not alone. It is a constructive musical track regardless and it is def a good time to spring clean in UK !! |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,open mike Date: 02 May 21 - 01:07 AM What about this one? "if there's a bustling in your hedge row Dont' be alrmed now, It's just a sprinkling (or spring clean?) for the May Queen." stairway to heaven....Led Zeppelin...not folk, but i remembered the word May from this song.. i always thought (until just now when i looked it up) that it was a sprinkling..... another mondegreen revealed! |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,Liane (not a guest, dammit--I'm unable to lo Date: 01 May 21 - 08:40 PM Thank you, Geoff. I tried unsuccessfully to make it clickable. I'm clearly unequipped for the twenty-first century. |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 01 May 21 - 07:02 PM Thanks, GUEST,Liane -. Here is a Blue Click link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrBs1NjBBGo |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GUEST,Liane Date: 01 May 21 - 06:21 PM Has anyone else mentioned this beautiful song by Malicorne? "The month of April has gone, the month of May has drawn near, And let us marry the roses." [can that be right?] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrBs1NjBBGo |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: Cool Beans Date: 01 May 21 - 12:10 PM APRIL MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE My friend Dan Hazlett wrote (and performs) a lovely song called "April, May I Have This Dance" Covers April and May. Not a great video, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3c5ASINVdY |
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Subject: RE: Any May songs? From: GeoffLawes Date: 30 Apr 21 - 08:28 AM THE PLEASANT MONTH OF MAY `Twas in the pleasant month of May, In the springtime of the year, And down in yonder meadow There runs a river clear. ‘ Mainly Norfolk: The Merry Haymakers / The (Pleasant) Month of May / Tumbling Through the Hay https://mainlynorfolk.info/copperfamily/songs/themerryhaymakers.html Traditional Music Song Info & Lyrics http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/Month_of_May.htm Pleasant Month Of May · Lisa Knapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZG79uYwCY&list=RDvszTcObmbTg&index=6 Pleasant Month of May-Copper Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSKz8jpWrWg The Pleasant Month of May · Sam Larner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0XOeKEBBQw The Pleasant Month of May · Jackie Oates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPIt77rDnoA |
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