The green meadow
Language: English
It's of a lawyer fine and gay, As he rode through the city O there he spied on a lovely maid, She was handsome, fair an pretty. "Good morning unto you fair maid, And where are you a-going?" "Down in yonder green meadow," said she, "Where my father is a-mowing." "So now you come to London," he says, "It's there a fine lady I'll make you, And you shall enjoy a silken gown, Diamonds rings, gold chain and gold laces." "I'd rather be a poor man's wife And sit at my wheel a-spinning, Than I would be a lawyer jade In my laces and fine linen." And now she is a poor man's wife, Her husband dearly loves her; She lives a sweet contented life, No lady in town is above her.
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), "The green meadow", 1950 [women's chorus], from the cantata Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, no. 3d, (Summer), 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: 20
Word count: 132