Monday, May 3, 2010

Now Is the Month of Maying



Now Is the Month of Maying, performed by The King’s Singers

Now is the month of maying,
When merry lads are playing!
Fa la la la la!
Each with his bonny lass,
A-dancing on the grass!
Fa la la la la!

The Spring, clad all in gladness,
Doth laugh at Winter’s sadness!
Fa la la la la!
And to the bagpipes’ sound,
The nymphs tread out the ground!
Fa la la la la!

Fie then! Why sit we musing,
Youth’s sweet delight refusing?
Fa la la la la!
Say, dainty nymphs, and speak,
Shall we play at barley-break?
Fa la la la la!

~ Thomas Morley (1557/1558-1602), English organist and a leading composer of madrigals and other secular music
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