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June English Folk Song Traditional |
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| It's a rosebud in June and the violets in full bloom, And the small birds are singing love songs on each spray. Chorus: We'll pipe and we'll sing love, We'll dance in a ring love, When each lad takes his lass All on the green grass, And it's oh to plough where the fat oxen graze low And the lads and the lasses do sheep shearing go. When we have all sheared our jolly, jolly sheep,
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This song is from the "Journals of the Folk-Song Society," collected from William King by Cecil Sharp in Somerset, 1904. Steeleye Span recorded it for the album "Below the Salt." -- Dean Calin |
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