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You must wake and call me early call me early mother dear	A
To morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New year	A
Of all the glad New year mother the maddest merriest day	B
For I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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There's many a black black eye they say but none so bright as mine	C
There's Margaret and Mary there's Kate and Caroline	C
But none so fair as little Alice in all the land they say	B
So I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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I sleep so sound all night mother that I shall never wake	D
If you do not call me loud when the day begins to break	D
But I must gather knots of flowers and buds and garlands gay	B
For I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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As I came up the valley whom think ye should I see	E
But Robin leaning on the bridge beneath the hazel tree	E
He thought of that sharp look mother I gave him yesterday	B
But I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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He thought I was a ghost mother for I was all in white	F
And I ran by him without speaking like a flash of light	F
They call me cruel hearted but I care not what they say	B
For I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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They say he's dying all for love but that can never be	E
They say his heart is breaking mother what is that to me	E
There's many a bolder lad 'ill woo me any summer day	B
And I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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Little Effie shall go with me to morrow to the green	G
And you'll be there too mother to see me made the Queen	G
For the shepherd lads on every side 'ill come from far away	B
And I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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The honeysuckle round the porch has woven its wavy bowers	H
And by the meadow trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo flowers	H
And the wild marsh marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray	B
And I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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The night winds come and go mother upon the meadow grass	I
And the happy stars above them seem to brighten as they pass	I
There will not be a drop of rain the whole of the livelong day	B
And I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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All the valley mother 'ill be fresh and green and still	J
And the cowslip and the crowfoot are over all the hill	J
And the rivulet in the flowery dale 'ill merrily glance and play	B
For I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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So you must wake and call me early call me early mother dear	A
To morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New year	A
To morrow 'ill be of all the year the maddest merriest day	B
For I'm to be Queen o' the May mother I'm to be Queen o' the May	B
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NEW YEAR'S EVE	K
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If you're waking call me early call me early mother dear	A
For I would see the sun rise upon the glad New year	A
It is the last New year that I shall ever see	E
Then you may lay me low i' the mould and think no more of me	E
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To night I saw the sun set he set and left behind	L
The good old year the dear old time and all my peace of mind	L
And the New year's coming up mother but I shall never see	E
The blossom on the blackthorn the leaf upon the tree	E
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Last May we made a crown of flowers we had a merry day	B
Beneath the hawthorn on the green they made me Queen of May	B
And we danced about the may pole and in the hazel copse	E
Till Charles's Wain came out above the tall white chimney tops	E
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There's not a flower on all the hills the frost is on the pane	M
I only wish to live till the snowdrops come again	N
I wish the snow would melt and the sun come out on high	O
I long to see a flower so before the day I die	O
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The building rook'll caw from the windy tall elm tree	E
And the tufted plover pipe along the fallow lea	E
And the swallow 'ill come back again with summer o'er the wave	P
But I shall lie alone mother within the mouldering grave	P
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Upon the chancel casement and upon that grave of mine	C
In the early early morning the summer sun 'ill shine	C
Before the red cock crows from the farm upon the hill	J
When you are warm asleep mother and all the world is still	J
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When the flowers come again mother beneath the waning light	F
You'll never see me more in the long gray fields at night	F
When from the dry dark wold the summer airs blow cool	Q
On the oat grass and the sword grass and the bulrush in the pool	Q
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You'll bury me my mother just beneath the hawthorn shade	R
And you'll come sometimes and see me where I am lowly laid	R
I shall not forget you mother I shall hear you when you pass	E
With your feet above my head in the long and pleasant grass	E
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I have been wild and wayward but you'll forgive me now	S
You'll kiss me my own mother and forgive me ere I go	T
Nay nay you must not weep nor let your grief be wild	U
You should not fret for me mother you have another child	U
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If I can I'll come again mother from out my resting place	E
Tho' you'll not see me mother I shall look upon your face	E
Tho' I cannot speak a work I shall harken what you say	E
And be often often with you when you think I'm far away	E
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Good night good night when I have said good night for evermore	V
And you see me carried out from the threshold of the door	V
Don't let Effie come to see me till my grave be growing green	G
She'll be a better child to you than ever I have been	W
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She'll find my garden tools upon the granary floor	V
Let her take 'em they are hers I shall never garden more	V
But tell her when I'm gone to train the rosebush that I set	X
About the parlor window and the box of mignonette	X
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Good night sweet mother call me before the day is born	Y
All night I lie awake but I fall asleep at morn	Y
But I would see the sun rise upon the glad New year	A
So if you're waking call me call me early mother dear	A
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CONCLUSION	Z
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I thought to pass away before and yet alive I am	A2
And in the fields all round I hear the bleating of the lamb	A2
How sadly I remember rose the morning of the year	A
To die before the snowdrop came and now the violet's here	B2
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O sweet is the new violet that comes beneath the skies	E
And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise	E
And sweet is all the land about and all the flowers that blow	T
And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go	T
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It seem'd so hard at first mother to leave the blessed sun	Z
And now it seems as hard to stay and yet His will be done	Z
But still I think it can't be long before I find release	E
And that good man the clergyman has told me words of peace	E
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O blessings on his kindly voice and on his silver hair	C2
And blessings on his whole life long until he meet me there	C2
O blessings on his kindly heart and on his silver head	X
A thousand times I blest him as he knelt beside my bed	X
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He taught me all the mercy for he show'd me all the sin	W
Now tho' my lamp was lighted late there's One will let me in	W
Nor would I now be well mother again if that could be	E
For my desire is but to pass to Him that died for me	E
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I did not hear the dog howl mother or the death watch beat	X
There came a sweeter token when the night and morning meet	X
But sit beside my bed mother and put your hand in mine	C
And Effie on the other side and I will tell the sign	C
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All in the wild March morning I heard the angels call	D2
It was when the moon was setting and the dark was over all	D2
The trees began to whisper and the wind began to roll	E2
And in the wild March morning I heard them call my soul	E2
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For lying broad awake I thought of you and Effie dear	A
I saw you sitting in the house and I no longer here	B2
With all my strength I pray'd for both and so I felt resign'd	X
And up the valley came a swell of music on the wind	X
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I thought that it was fancy and I listen'd in my bed	X
And then did something speak to me I know not what was said	X
For great delight and shuddering took hold of all my mind	X
And up the valley came again the music on the wind	X
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But you were sleeping and I said 'It's not for them it's mine '	-
And if it come three times I thought I take it for a sign	C
And once again it came and close beside the window bars	E
Then seem'd to go right up to heaven and die among the stars	E
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So now I think my time is near I trust it is I know	T
The blessed music went that way my soul will have to go	T
And for myself indeed I care not if I go to day	X
But Effie you must comfort her when I am past away	X
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And say to Robin a kind word and tell him not to fret	X
There's many a worthier than I would make him happy yet	X
If I had lived I cannot tell I might have been his wife	F2
But all these things have ceased to be with my desire of life	F2
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O look the sun begins to rise the heavens are in a glow	T
He shines upon a hundred fields and all of them I know	T
And there I move no longer now and there his light may shine	C
Wild flowers in the valley for other hands than mine	C
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O sweet and strange it seems to me that ere this day is done	Z
The voice that now is speaking may be beyond the sun	Z
For ever and for ever with those just souls and true	G2
And what is life that we should moan why make we such ado	G2
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For ever and for ever all in a blessed home	H2
And there to wait a little while till you and Effie come	I2
To lie within the light of God as I lie upon your breast	X
And the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest	X