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200 Children's Song Lyrics, incuding Christian Hymns - online songbook

	SONGS FOR GIRLHOOD.
	THE MAY QUEEN. Alfked Tennyson. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year; Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. There's many a black black eye, they say, but none so bright as mine; There's Margaret and Mary, there's Kate and Car�oline ; But none so fair as little Alice in all the land, they say; So I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.	I sleep so sound all night, mother, that I shall never wake, If you do not call me loud when the day begins to break: But I must gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay, For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. As I came up the valley whom think ye should I see But Robin leaning on the bridge beneath the ha�zel-tree ? He thought of that sharp look, mother, I gave him yesterday� But I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. He thought I was a ghost, mother, for I was all in white, And I ran by him without speaking, like a flask of light.