Lemady - Jim Moray

From the I Am Jim Moray mini-album

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~Lyrics~

Hark, said the fair maid, the nightingales are singing,
The larks they go ringing their notes up in the air.
Small birds and turtledoves on every bough are building,
The sun is just a-glimmering; arise my dear.

Rise up, my fair maid, and pick your love a posy,
It is the fairest flower that ever my eyes did see.
It's I will pick you posies, both lily-white pinks and roses;
So early in the morning before break of day.

Lemady, Lemady, you are a lovely creature,
You are the fairest flower that ever my eyes did see.
I'll play my love a tune all on the pipes of ivory
So early in the morning before break of day.

I'll play my love a tune all on the pipes of ivory
So early in the morning before break of day.

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/guvnor/songs/lemady.html

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[allanfmarsden]

Caught this on Froots 20 free CD with Folk Roots magazine. Excellent and unusual

[drbobdrake]

You cannot buy the 2001 EP "I Am Jim Moray" for love or money, and Jim does not want to either re-release it or re-record. Two of the songs from the EP, Poverty Knock and Lemady, are available on his 2010 collection Jim Moray: A Beginner's Guide. (By the way, Moray is pronounced "Murray" in the UK.)