It's a rosebud in June
Language: English
It's a rosebud in June, and the violets in full bloom The small birds are singing love songs from each spray. Refrain: 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 all to plow Where the fat oxen graze low; And the lads and the lasses do sheepshearing go. When we have all shear'd, our jolly, jolly sheep Nothing brings more joy, than to talk of their increase. (Refrain)
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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 Imogen Clare Holst (1907 - 1984), "It's a rosebud in June", 1934, published 1934, first performed 1936 [ SSA chorus a cappella ], from Four Somerset Folk Songs, no. 2, Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "The sheep shearing", 1950 [ women's chorus ], from cantata Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, no. 3c, (Summer), Oxford University Press [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Lidy van Noordenburg
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-31
Line count: 15
Word count: 85