Name: The Larks They Sang Melodious
Duration: P00H03M17S
Description: Also known as "Pleasant and Delightful" or "A Sailor and His True Love", this song has been performed by artists including Louis Killen, Charlie Bate, Shirley Collins and Show of Hands. Again, Jon Boden learnt this song from Forest School Camps, as I did, and he used it as the first song of his "A Folk Song a Day" project.

The Larks They Sang Melodious

from Of Love and Sailors by Roary Skaista

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Also known as "Pleasant and Delightful" or "A Sailor and His True Love", this song has been performed by artists including Louis Killen, Charlie Bate, Shirley Collins and Show of Hands. Again, Jon Boden learnt this song from Forest School Camps, as I did, and he used it as the first song of his "A Folk Song a Day" project.

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LYRICS:

Twas pleasant and delightful one midsummer's morn
And the fields and all the meadows were all covered with corn
And the thrushes and the songbirds sang on every green spray
And the larks they sang melodious at the dawning of the day.
And the larks they sang melodious,
And the larks they sang melodious,
And the larks they sang melodious at the dawning of the day.

A sailor and his true love were walking one day.
Said the sailor to his true love, "I am bound far away.
I am bound for the East Indies where the load cannons roar
I am bound to leave you Nancy, you're the girl that I adore."

Now the ring from off her finger she instantly drew,
Saying, "Take this, dearest William, and my heart it goes too."
And as they were embracing, tears from her eyes fell,
Saying, "May I go along with you?" "Oh no, my love, farewell."

Now the wind's in the rigging and the anchor's aweigh
And the ship she will be sailing at the dawning of the day
And the current is rising on a fast-flowing tide
And if ever I return again, I will make you my bride.
And if ever I return again,
And if ever I return again,
And if ever I return again, I will make you my bride.

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from Of Love and Sailors, released August 1, 2015
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Roary Skaista is a queer folk musician based in Oxford, performing traditional folk songs as well as their own material on the themes of love, nature and diversity.

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