X:1
T:Down in the Meadows
T:O Waly Waly
B:Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Dec 1954
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
S:Johnson's Scots Musical Museum
M:2/4
L:1/16
K:C
c3 B c2 d2 |c B3 A G4 |c3 B c2 e2 |f3 e d4 |
e3 f g3e |d2 A2 f3 (e/d/) |c3 c G3 (A/F/) |E2 G2 c4 |]
W:In yon garden fine an' gay
W:Picking lilies a' the day
W:Gath'ring flow'rs of ilka hue,
W:I wist na then what love cou'd do.
W:
W:Where love is planted there it grows,
W:It buds and blows like any rose
W:It has a sweet and pleasant smell.
W:No flow'r on earth can it excel.
W:
W:I put my hand into the bush,
W:And thought the sweetest rose to find,
W:But pricked my finger to the bone
W:And left the sweetest rose behind.