Tag: folk

Cheerful Voices: She moved through the fair

Byartsyhonker December 18, 2013 0 Comments
My young love said to me, "My mother won't mind And my father won't slight you for your lack of kine" And she stepped away from me and this she did say: It will not be long, love, till our wedding day." As she stepped away from me and she moved through the fair And fondly I watched her move here and move there And then she turned homeward with one star awake Like the swan in the evening moves...

Cheerful Voices: The Song of the Vineyard

Byartsyhonker December 17, 2013 0 Comments
Cheerful Voices by Kathryn Rose My truelove had a vineyard upon a hill so high, He dug the ground and planted the best that you can buy, He hollowed out a winepress and built a wall and tower; At harvest-time he gathered but every grape was sour. Now find the guilty party, you masters of the law; My truelove in his vineyard could not have laboured more. A vineyard so ungrateful with grapes so...

Cheerful Voices: There was an old woman who had a little pig

Byartsyhonker December 16, 2013 0 Comments
Cheerful Voices by Kathryn Rose My grandfather used to sing this to me. He sang a sort of postlude, too, to a different tune which I have now forgotten. I don't know why pig mortality was something my grandfather was singing to me about, or indeed whether two grown-ups dying of broken hearts is really appropriate material for a four-year-old, but I don't remember it bothering me at all. Some of...