The Month of May-The Copper Family

[ti:The Month of May] [ar:The Copper Family] [al:Come Write Me Down - Early Recordings of The Copper Family of Rottingdean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Month of May - The Copper Family [00:00.67]It was in the pleasant month [00:03.16]Of May in the springtime of the year [00:06.61]And down by yonder meadow [00:09.44]There runs a river clear [00:12.15]See how the little fishes [00:15.16]How they do sport and play [00:18.01]Causing many a lad and many a lass [00:21.28]To go there a-making hay [00:23.61] [00:24.86]Then in comes the scytheman [00:27.90]That meadow to mow down [00:30.64]With his old leathered bottle [00:32.79]And the ale that runs so brown [00:36.28]There's many a stout and labouring man [00:39.36]Comes here his skill to try [00:42.31]He works he mows he sweats and blows [00:45.65]And the grass cuts very dry [00:47.93] [00:49.16]Then in comes both Tom [00:51.53]And Dick with their pitch-forks and their rakes [00:54.69]And likewise black-eyed Susan [00:57.42]The hay all for to make [00:59.48] [01:00.05]There's a sweet sweet sweet [01:01.44]And a jug jug jug [01:02.74] [01:03.40]How the harmless birds did sing [01:06.20]From the morning till the evening [01:09.31]As we were a-haymaking [01:11.51] [01:13.05]It was just at one evening as [01:15.94]The sun was a-going down [01:18.55]We saw the jolly piper [01:20.81]Come a-strolling through the town [01:24.05]There he pulled out his tapering pipes [01:27.05]And he made the valley ring [01:29.95]So we all put down our rakes and forks [01:32.94]And left off haymaking [01:35.20] [01:36.71]We called for a dance [01:39.42]And we tripped it along [01:42.36]We danced all round the haycocks till [01:45.06]The rising of the sun [01:47.30] [01:47.91]When the sun did shine such a glorious light [01:50.85]And the harmless birds did sing [01:53.31] [01:53.84]Each lad he took his lass in hand [01:56.85]And went hack to his haymaking