One Morning in May (folk song)

He plays the young woman a tune, and she remarks on the nightingale's song: Then with kisses and compliments he took her round the middle, And out of his knapsack he drawed forth a fiddle, And he played her such a fine tune as made the groves and valleys ring, Oh 'tis "Hark, hark" says the fair maid "How the nightingales sing".

[4] (Collected by H.E.D.Hammond from William Bartlett in Wimborne Union (workhouse), Dorset, 1905) He says it's time to "give o'er", but she asks him to play another tune, saying she loves the touch of his string.

[5][6] This is similar to a chorus found in a version called the "Soldier and the Lady" collected from Frederick and Raymond Cantwell of Standlake, Oxfordshire by Peter Kennedy in 1956.

[10][11] The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs has a version titled "Water Rattle" sung by Arthur Howard in 1981 and recorded by Ian Russell.

1960 in The Gardeners Arms, Tostock, Suffolk, England, by Desmond Herring is in the British Library Sound Archive.

"As I Was Walking One Morning in May" appears as an Irish air in Stanford's 1905 edition of George Petrie's collection, bearing the attribution "From P.