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Come, Come My Friends
John Barleycorn
The Bird in the Bush
The Three Ravens
Fair Maid of Australia
Winter Man (Chris Leslie)
New Year (Jehanne Mehta)
The Month of January
Cupid's Garden
The Brokendown Gentleman
Love in June
Lymington Round & Round
The Spotted Cow
Washing Day
George Collins
The Rolling of The Stones
Here is My Home (Si Kahn)

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The Bird in the Bush

A song, again collected by the Hammond Bros. in
both Dorset and Somerset, that tastefully uses sexual
imagery common in folk song. My version is influenced
by one collected by Bob Copper in Hampshire in the
1950's and is a 'one maid' version of the more common
'three maids' song, the one that never really tells you what happened to the other two!

The Song

A fair maid a milking did go
A fair maid a milking did go
And the wind it did blow high, and the wind it did blow low,
It blew her pails to and fro.

She met with a man that she knew
She met with a man that she knew
And she boldly asked of him, have you got any skill
To catch me a small bird or two.

Oh Yes, I have some skill
And a very good skill it is too,
If you will come with me to yonder shady tree,
I'll catch you a small bird or two.

So they went down together you shall see,
All under the green shady tree.
And he fired at the bush, and the bird it did fly in,
Just above her lily-white knee.

Here's a health to the man & the maid
Here's a health to the bird in the bush.
We're all birds of one feather and we'll all flock together
May the people say little or much.

Here's a health to the man & the maid,
Here's a health to the jolly dragoon,
We have tarried here all day and drank down the sun,
Let's tarry here and drink down the moon.