Country Dance, A

DESCRIPTION: "When lambkins skip, and apples are growing, Grass is green, and roses ablow.... Why should we be all the day toiling? ... Haste away to the greenwood tree." The work is done. All gather for the dance
AUTHOR: Words: Sabine Baring-Gould
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: farming dancing
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #79, "A Country Dance" (1 text, 1 tune, the text not being traditional)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Mallard" (tune)
NOTES [40 words]: This isn't even a case where Sabine Baring-Gould objected to the words of the song he collected. He just thought the original song, "The Mallard," was stupid. Yes, it is stupid. So is messing up traditional songs with garbage new words. - RBW
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File: BGSW079

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