MUSETTE. HENRI MURGER. YESTERDAY, watching the swallows' flight That bring the spring and the season fair, A moment I thought of the beauty bright...
THE THREE CAPTAINS. ALL beneath the white-rose tree Walks a lady fair to see, She is as white as the snows, She is as fair as the day： From her father...
THE BRIDGE OF DEATH. 'THE dance is on the Bridge of Death And who will dance with me？' 'There's never a man of living men Will dare to...
LE PERE SEVERE. KING LOUIS' DAUGHTER. KING Louis on his bridge is he, He holds his daughter on his knee. She asks a husband at his hand That is no...
THE MILK WHITE DOE. IT was a mother and a maid That walked the woods among, And still the maid went slow and sad, And still the mother sung. 'What...
A LADY OF HIGH DEGREE. WILL ye that I should sing Of the love of a goodly thing, Was no vilein's may？ 'Tis sung of a knight so free, Under the...
LOST FOR A ROSE'S SAKE. I LAVED my hands, BY the water side； With the willow leaves My hands I dried. The nightingale sung On the bough of the tre...
THE BRIGAND'S GRAVE. THE moon came up above the hill, The sun went down the sea； Go, maids, and fetch the well-water, But, lad, come here to me. G...
THE SUDDEN BRIDAL. IT was a maid lay sick of love, All for a leman fair； And it was three of her bower-maidens That came to comfort her. The first she...
GREEK FOLK SONGS.IANNOULA. ALL the maidens were merry and wed All to lovers so fair to see； The lover I took to my bridal bed He is not long for love ...