CORNISH MAY CAROL



Oss, Oss, Wee Oss



Unite and unite and let us all unite

For summer is a-come unto day

And wither we are going, we will all unite

In the merry morning of May



With a merry ring and now the joyful spring

O give us a cup of ale and the merrier we will sing



The young men of Padstow, they might if they would

They might have built a ship and gilded it all in gold



The young women of Padstow, they might if they would

They might have built a garland of the white rose and the red



Where are those young men that now here should dance?

For some they are in England and some they are in France



O where is St. George?

O where is he o ?

He's out in his longboat

All on the salt sea-o

Up flies the kite

Down falls the lark-o

And Ursula Birdhood she had an old ewe

And she died in her own park-o



With a merry ring and now the joyful spring

So happy are those little birds and the merrier we will sing



from the May celebration at Padstow, Cornwall

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