93 Rosebud in June

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Tune Analysis: Plagal. Heptatonic. E Dorian. Notated by Sharp in the key of E minor with all of the Cs sharpened. The abc code below changes the key signature to E Dorian to indicate more clearly the modal nature of the tune.

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ABC Code:
X:93
T:93 It's A Rosebud In June
P:Collected by Cecil J. Sharp
C:From 'One Hundred English Folk Songs' (1916)
Z:Transcribed by Lewis Jones
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L:1/8
M:3/4
I:linebreak $
K:Edor
Q:1/4=120
V:
V:1
E3/2 F/ | G2 F2 E2 | B4 (E>D) | E3 G F D | B,4 E3/2 F/ | (G2 F2) E2 |$ d2 B2 (AG) | A3 B (cA) | %8
w: It's a|rose- bud in|June and *|vio- lets in full|bloom, And the|small * birds|sing- ing love *|songs on each *|
B4 (B>c) | d2 B2 e2 | (dc) B2 (EF) |$ G2 F2 B2 | (GF) E2 E3/2 F/ | G2 F2 E2 | B4 (E>D) | %15
w: spray; We'll *|pipe and we'll|sing * Love, We'll *|dance in a|ring * Love, When each|lad takes his|lass all *|
E3 G (FD) |$ B,4 G A | (B3 A GA | B4) E2 | (E2 !fermata!D2) E3/2 F/ | G2 F2 E2 | %21
w: on the green *|grass, And it's|all * * *|* to|plough * Where the|fat ox- en|
E2 !fermata!B,2 G3/2 A/ |$ B2 A2 G2 | (Bc) !fermata!d2 B A | G2 F2 G2 | E4 |] %26
w: graze low, And the|lads and the|lass\- * es to the|sheep shear- ing|go.|
W:
W:
W:1 It's a rosebud in June and violets in full bloom,
W:And the small birds singing love-songs on each spray;
W:We'll pipe and we'll sing, Love,
W:We'll dance in a ring, Love,
W:When each lad takes his lass all on the green grass;
W:And it's all to plough
W:Where the fat oxen graze low,
W:And the lads and the lasses to sheep-shearing go.
W:
W:2 When we have a-shear'd all our jolly, jolly sheep,
W:What joy can be greater than to talk of their increase?
W:We'll pipe and we'll sing, Love,
W:We'll dance in a ring, Love,
W:When each lad takes his lass all on the green grass;
W:And it's all to plough
W:Where the fat oxen graze low,
W:And the lads and the lasses to sheep-shearing go.
W:
W:NOTE
W:
W:The Rev. John Broadwood noted a Sussex version of this song before 1840 (see
W:'Sussex Songs,' No. 11, Leonard & Company, Oxford Street). The words were also
W:set to music by John Barrett, and were probably sung in "The Custom of the Manor"
W:(1715). As the words of this version show traces of West Country dialect, and the
W:tune, with its Dorian characteristics, is not altogether unlike that printed here,
W:it is just possible that Barrett founded his tune upon the folk-air. The Sussex tune
W:is quite different from our Dorian version, which was collected by me in Somerset.
W:The words are printed exactly as they were sung to me.
W: