Maying Song

"Arise my love, shake off your dream
 This May morning so early
 Accept I pray this tree of May
 That here stands flowering so rarely"
 "My window I shall not unbar
 Nor rise the May to greet sir
 Go plant your tree where ere you please
 Go plant it out in the street sir"
 "Arise my love, shake off your dream
 This May morning so early
 Accept I pray this tree of May
 That here stands flowering so rarely"
 "But if all on the lords highway
 I set it up to flourish
 The winter's night is long and cold
 The tender flowers they may perish"
 "And if they die, dear love the tree
 To churchyard shall be carried
 And laid beneath, a briar rose
 Shall blossom where it lies buried"
 "And on the briar, a nightingale
 Shall sit and sing so clear love
 She'll sing for us her sweetest song
 As May comes round every year love"
 "Arise my love, shake off your dream
 This May morning so early
 Accept I pray this tree of May
 That here stands flowering so rarely"