Early in the Spring
Language: English
O early, early in the Spring, The cuckoo and the nightingale So sweetly were singing. As I walked out one May morning O, there I did two lovers see, They were taking of the air, O... Then this young couple they walked along, And this young man he sang a song, Thinking to gain her favour. 'Since you've gained my heart', said she, 'And stolen away my liberty, Pray grant to me your name, Sir. To church then this young couple went, And married were, in sweet content, She and her own true lover.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Early in the Spring", 1950 [women's chorus], from the cantata Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, no. 2a, (Spring), Oxford University Press [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Lidy van Noordenburg
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-31
Line count: 15
Word count: 94