The Month of May-Bob Cooper/Ron Copper

[ti:The Month of May] [ar:Bob Cooper] [al:English Shepherd and Farming Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Month of May - Bob Cooper/Ron Copper [00:01.35]It was in the pleasant month [00:03.24]Of May in the springtime of the year [00:06.74]And down by yonder meadow [00:09.40]There runs a river clear [00:12.22]See how the little fishes [00:15.20]How they do sport and play [00:18.02]Causing many a lad and many a lass [00:20.98]To go there a-making hay [00:23.89] [00:24.74]Then in comes the scytheman [00:27.57]That meadow to mow down [00:30.29]With his old leathered bottle [00:32.53]And the ale that runs so brown [00:35.83]There's many a stout and labouring man [00:38.91]Comes here his skill to try [00:41.80]He works he mows he sweats and blows [00:44.81]And the grass cuts very dry [00:47.44] [00:48.47]Then in comes both Tom [00:50.55]And Dick with their pitch-forks and their rakes [00:53.91]And likewise black-eyed Susan [00:56.59]The hay all for to make [00:59.27]There's a sweet sweet sweet [01:00.65]And a jug jug jug [01:02.34]How the harmless birds did sing [01:05.08]From the morning till the evening [01:08.22]As we were a-haymaking [01:10.60] [01:11.85]It was just at one evening as [01:14.66]The sun was a-going down [01:17.35]We saw the jolly piper [01:19.53]Come a-strolling through the town [01:22.72]There he pulled out his tapering pipes [01:25.66]And he made the valley ring [01:28.38]So we all put down our rakes and forks [01:31.56]And left off haymaking [01:33.99] [01:35.02]We called for a dance [01:37.60]And we tripped it along [01:40.64]We danced all round the haycocks till [01:43.13]The rising of the sun [01:45.81]When the sun did shine such a glorious light [01:48.87]And the harmless birds did sing [01:51.64]Each lad he took his lass in hand [01:54.76]And went hack to his haymaking