Searching for Lambs

from Trad Song Tuesdays Volume 0 by Piers Cawley

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Sometimes, choosing a song for Trad Song Tuesday is almost automatic. This is an example. The theme was "Love" and this is the song that immediately sprang to mind. For once, it has a more or less happy ending (though it is entirely possible that she tells him to bugger off, I suppose)

By happy chance, the next theme was "Sheep", so I had that covered too.

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As I walked out one May morning
One May morning betimes
I met a maid from home had strayed
Just as the sun did shine

"What makes you rise my dear, my dear
"Your journey to pursue?
"Your pretty little feet they tread so neat
"Strike off the morning dew."

"I'm going to feed my father's flock
"His young and tender lambs
"That over hills and over dales
"Lie searching for their dams"

"Oh stay, oh stay you handsome maid
"And rest a moment here
"For their is none but you alone
"That I do love so dear"

How gloriously the sun do shine
How pleasant is the air
I'd rather rest on my true love's breast
Than any other where

For I am thine and thou art mine
No man shall uncomfort thee
We'll join our hands in wedded bands
And married we shall be

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from Trad Song Tuesdays Volume 0, released February 26, 2020
Trad. Arr. Cawley

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Piers Cawley Doncaster, UK

A singer for as long as he can remember, Piers (he/they) sings Old Songs with a clarity and conviction that makes them as fresh as paint.

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