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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:39, 31 December 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>(as printed in Michael Pickering, &quot;[[Village Song and Culture]]&quot;.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>(as printed in Michael Pickering, &quot;[[Village Song and Culture]]&quot;.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The words and tune are given in Tony Foxworthy, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>"[[Forty Long Miles (book)|Forty Long Miles]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The words and tune are given in Tony Foxworthy, "[[Forty Long Miles (book)|Forty Long Miles]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[category:Song]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[category:Song]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;May Day Carol&#039;&#039;&#039;, included in the <a href="/wiki/Janet_Blunt" title="Janet Blunt">Blunt</a> collection. The words were noted by Miss Aniie Norris around 1840 from the singing of a group of children at Swalcliffe, North [...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;May Day Carol&#039;&#039;&#039;, included in the [[Janet Blunt|Blunt]] collection.<br /> <br /> The words were noted by Miss Aniie Norris around 1840 from the singing of a group of children at Swalcliffe, North [[Oxfordshire]]. The words were passed onto Janet Blunt in 1908, and she finally collected a tune for the song from Mrs Woolgrove of Swalcliffe, and Mrs Lynes of Sibford, at Sibford fete, July 1921.<br /> <br /> <br /> #Awake! awake! lift up your eyes&lt;br /&gt;And pray to God for grace&lt;br /&gt;Repent! repent! of your former sins&lt;br /&gt;While ye have time and space&lt;br /&gt;<br /> #I have been wandering all this night&lt;br /&gt;And part of the last night&lt;br /&gt;So now I&#039;ve come for to sing you a song&lt;br /&gt;And to show you a branch of May&lt;br /&gt;<br /> #A branch of may I have brought you&lt;br /&gt;And at your door it stands&lt;br /&gt;It does spread out, and it spreads all about &lt;br /&gt;By the work of our Lord’s hands&lt;br /&gt;<br /> #Man is but a man, his life’s but a span&lt;br /&gt;He is much like a flower&lt;br /&gt;He’s here today and he&#039;s gone tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;So he’s all gone down in an hour&lt;br /&gt;<br /> #So now I have sung you my little short song&lt;br /&gt;I can no longer stay&lt;br /&gt;God bless you all both great and small&lt;br /&gt;And I wish you a happy May&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /> <br /> (as printed in Michael Pickering, &quot;[[Village Song and Culture]]&quot;.<br /> <br /> The words and tune are given in Tony Foxworthy, &quot;&quot;[[Forty Long Miles (book)|Forty Long Miles]].<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[category:Song]]</div>

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