LYR ADD MAY FEAST

01 Mar 98 - 07:11 PM (#22669)
Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: DE HALA ME/MAY FEAST
From:

MAY FEAST

Awake ye pretty maids awake
Refreshed from drowsy dream,
And haste to the dairy house and take
For us a dish of cream.

If not for us a dish of yellow cream,
Then give us kisses three;
The woodland bower, is white with flower,
And green is every tree.

A branch of may we bear about,
Before the door it stands
There's not a sprout unbudded out,
The work of Gods own hands.

Awake, awake ye pretty maids,
And take the may bush in;
Or twill be gone ere tomorrow morn,
And you'll have none within.

Throughout the night before the light,
There fell rain or dew;
It twinkles bright upon may bush bright,
It sparkles on the plain.

Come with us, come with us my fair pretty maids,
For to celebrate the feast of May Day;
See you the dark horse, follow its course—
With joy for summer's here today.

The words and music of this carol were given to Baring Gould by J.S.Cayzer. In 'Songs of the West' Baring Gould commented that the carol was still popular in Cornwall this would have been circa 1905.
Source Henegen, Merv Davey

DE HALA ME

Dyfuneugb, dyfuneugh-why, mowysy tek
Dyworth an hunros pos deseghys;
Ha kemereugh dhe'n lety, ragon-ny,
Padelyk gans dehen molys.

Mar ny yllough why cafos agas dehen yn fyn,
Reugh dhymmo agas ammas tergwyth;
Yn delyowek a gefyn, blejyow gwyn,
Ha maylys glas yu oll an gwyth.

Spernen gwyn, spernen gwyn, yu genen degys,
Arak oll an darrajow a saf;
Ha skyllen oll yn gwynv;ys egunys,
May whellough why devedhyans an haf.

Dyfuneugh, dyfuneugh, why mowysy tek,
Oll agas prysken kemereugh wyth;
Ma na ve gyllys tosow, avorow,
Yndella vya dheugh why travyth.

Dres an nos ha kens dos an golow gans an jeth,
Y codhys glaw po gluth elvennek;
War'n spernen gwyn a dhewyn, oll yn fyn,
Gwelys ytho war on mar venedhek.

Deugh genen, deugh genen, why mowysy tek,
Dhe'n lowender de hala me;
Leweugh an margh du, dres an plu,
Ha bedheugh why lowen haf a dhe.


Agas Dyw gans mos hwi
BAZ

MIDI file: HALAMAY.MID

Timebase: 480

Tempo: 120 (500000 microsec/crotchet)
Key: G
TimeSig: 4/4 48 8
Name: DE HALA ME (MAY FEAST)
Text: S:MERVE DAVEY
Start
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This program is worth the effort of learning it.

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ABC format:

X:1
T:DE HALA ME (MAY FEAST)
M:4/4
Q:1/4=120
K:G
GABcBAAG|FEA2BGF2|-FAGEFGA2|d^cd6|e2d^cBAG2|
E2FGAFd2|e2d^cBAGE|FGE6||

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