Gathering Rushes in the Month of May-Anne Briggs

[ti:Gathering Rushes in the Month of May] [ar:Anne Briggs] [al:An Introduction to Anne Briggs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Gathering Rushes in the Month of May - Anne Briggs [00:00.02]Written by：Anne Briggs [00:00.46]A fine young girl all in the month of May [00:05.87]She was gathering rushes just at the break of day [00:11.84] [00:12.47]But before she's come home she's born a little son [00:18.32] [00:18.95]And she's rolled him underneath her apron [00:23.85] [00:25.36]Well she cried at the threshold as she coming at the door [00:31.59]And she folded in her apron the little babe she bore [00:37.70] [00:38.35]Said her father where've you been my little daughter Jane [00:44.87]And what's that you've got underneath your apron [00:49.90] [00:51.64]Oh father dear father it's nothing then said she [00:57.67]It's only my new gown and that's too long for me [01:03.65] [01:04.30]And I was afraid it would draggle in the dew [01:09.46] [01:10.09]So I rolled it underneath my apron [01:14.99] [01:17.14]But in the dead of the night when all were fast asleep [01:21.87] [01:22.38]This pretty little baby oh it began to weep [01:27.82]Said her father what's that bird a crying out so clear [01:34.63]In the bedroom among the pretty maidens [01:39.70] [01:41.13]Oh father dear father it's nothing then said she [01:45.95] [01:46.64]It's just a little bird that fluttered to my knee [01:52.18] [01:52.70]And I'll build for it a nest and I'll warm it on my breast [01:59.03] [01:59.71]So it won't wake early in the May morning [02:05.18] [02:07.23]But in the third part of the night when all were fast asleep [02:12.82] [02:13.34]This pretty little baby again began to weep [02:18.48] [02:19.04]Said her father what's that baby a crying out so clear [02:26.10] [02:26.75]In the bedroom among the pretty maidens [02:31.66] [02:32.93]Oh father dear father it's nothing then said she [02:38.42] [02:38.99]It's just a little baby that someone gave to me [02:44.60] [02:45.24]Let it lie let it sleep this night along o' me [02:51.40]And I tell to you its daddy in the May morning [02:57.60] [02:59.60]Well was it by a black man or was it by a brown [03:04.97] [03:05.53]Or was it by a ploughing lad a ploughing up and down [03:11.27] [03:11.81]That gave to you the stranger you wear with your new gown [03:17.77] [03:18.34]That you rolled up underneath your apron [03:23.50] [03:25.98]No it wasn't by a black man and it wasn't by a brown [03:30.84] [03:31.45]I got it from a ploughing lad that ploughs the watery main [03:37.57] [03:38.19]He gave to me the stranger I wear with my new gown [03:44.98]That I've rolled up underneath my apron [03:50.44] [03:52.07]Well was it in the kitchen got or was it in the hall [03:57.87]Or was it in the cow shed or was it in the stall [04:03.83] [04:04.50]I wish I had a firebrand to burn the building down [04:10.50] [04:11.23]Where you met with him on a May morning [04:16.27] [04:18.33]No it wasn't in the kitchen got it wasn't in the hall [04:24.26]And neither in the cow shed and neither in the stall [04:30.22] [04:30.98]It was down by yonder spring where the small birds they sing [04:38.00] [04:38.75]That I met with him on a May morning