Morning Comes Early

DESCRIPTION: "Morning comes early and bright with dew Under your window I sing to you, Up, then, my comrade, up, then, my comrade Let us be greeting the morn so blue." "Why do you linger so long in bed, Open your window and show your head... the sun comes red"
AUTHOR: Words: Katherine Davis (source: Sanders-SingHighSingLow)
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Sanders-SingHighSingLow)
KEYWORDS: music nonballad campsong
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 332, 467, "Morning Comes Early" (notes only)
Sanders-SingHighSingLow, p. 33, "Morning Comes Early" (1 text, 1 tune)
SongsOfManyNations, "Morning Comes Early" (1 text, 1 tune) (CC edition, p. 1) (12th edition, p. 39)
Roud #36123
NOTES [43 words]: According to Songs of Many Nations and Sanders-SingHighSingLow, this is based on a Slovak folk song. It lists the translation as being from Ten Folk Songs and Ballads. It can be sung as a round; other versions repeat the last two lines of the verse.. - RBW
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