Padstow May Song

X: 1
T: Padstow May Song
O: Trad
Z: 1997 by John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>
N: For Mayday rituals.
M: 2/4
L: 1/8
K: G
P: Fast
D \
| "G"D2 "D7"EF | "G"G2 "D7"A2 | "G"G>F GF | G2 D2 | "C"EE "D7"FF | "G"G2 DB, | "D7"A,3 D |
| ED GA | "G"G2 "D7"FD | "G"G>D GA | d2 cB | "C"AB c2 | "D7"B2 AF | "G"G4- | G2 z :|
P: Slow
M: 3/4
L: 1/4
|: D | "G"GGG | G2D | GAB | "D7"A2B | "C"EFG | "(Am)"AHE ","A | "D7"ABc | BAF | "G"G2 |]
W: Unite and unite and let us all unite
W: For summer is a-come unto day
W: And whither we are going, we will all unite
W: In the merry morning of May
W:
W: With a merry ring and
W: Now the joyful spring
W: O give us a cup of ale
W: And the merrier we will sing
W:
W: The young men of Padstow,
W: They might if they would
W: They might have built a ship
W: And gilded it all in gold
W:
W: The young women of Padstow,
W: They might if they would
W: They might have built a garland
W: Of the white rose and the red
W:
W: Where are those young men
W: That now here should dance?
W: For some they are in England
W: And some they are in France
W:
W: O where is St. George?
W: O where is he o ?
W: He's out in his longboat
W: All on the salt sea-o
W:
W: Up flies the kite
W: Down falls the lark-o
W: And Ursula Birdhood, she had an old ewe
W: And she died in her own park-o
W:
W: With a merry ring
W: And now the joyful spring
W: So happy are those little birds
W: And the merrier we will sing

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/England/song/PadstowMaySong/0000