When Spring Comes In

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When Spring comes in the birds do sing,
The lambs do skip and the bells do ring
While we enjoy their glorious charm so noble and so gay.
The primrose blooms and the cowslip too,
The violets in their sweet retire, the roses shining through the briar,
And the daffadown-dillies which we admire will die and fade away.

Young men and maidens will be seen
On mountains high and meadows green,
They will talk of love and sport and play
While these young lambs do skip away,
At night they homeward wend their way
When evening stars appear.
The primrose blooms and the cowslip too,
The violets in their sweet retire, the roses shining through the briar,
And the daffadown-dillies which we admire will die and fade away.

The dairymaid to milking goes her blooming cheeks as red as a rose,
She carries her pail all on her arm so cheerful and so gay,
She milks she sings and the valleys ring,
The small birds on the branches there
Sit listening to this lovely fair. She is her master's trust and care
She is the ploughman's joy,
The primrose blooms and the cowslip too,
The violets in their sweet retire, the roses shining through the briar
And the daffadown-dillies which we admire will die and fade away.

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This song is from the
Coppersongs2 CD and also from
The Copper Family Song Book—A Living Tradition.

Coppersite

New: 19 September 1998 | Now: 19 September 1998 | Garry Gillard fecit