Early one morning, just as the sun was rising........ What comes next pray?!
Question: i had to laugh here as the suggested catagory for this song was Horoscopes. You must admit that is funny. mebbies not!
Answers: i had to laugh here as the suggested catagory for this song was Horoscopes. You must admit that is funny. mebbies not!
"Early one Morning" is an old traditional English folk song. It brings back some plesant childhood memories for me as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) children's programme The Friendly Giant, which aired from 1958 to 1985, used "Early One Morning" as its introductory theme.
The music was played on recorder.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8V9g61n9...
It was also popularly known in my youth as it was sung on "Bonanza" by brother Adam and was sung by Samantha in the TV series "Bewitched".
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "Early One Morning" is playing in the background at the beginning of the tale of Sir Launcelot just before his assistant is 'mortally wounded' with an arrow.
Also, it was popularly used as BBC radio 4's theme, played every day at 5:30am, but was discontinued in 2006.
There are two versions of the lyrics. I believe the first is derived from the Auld English Version and the second being a Victorian adaptation. In my realm of knowledge, the second version lyrics are more commonly used.
Version One:
Early one morning,
Just as the sun was rising,
I heard a maid sing,
In the valley below.
CHORUS:
Oh, don't deceive me,
Oh, never leave me,
How could you use
A poor maiden so?
Remember the vows,
That you made to your Mary,
Remember the bow'r,
Where you vowed to be true,
Chorus
Oh Gay is the garland,
And fresh are the roses,
I've culled from the garden,
To place upon thy brow.
Chorus
Thus sang the poor maiden,
Her sorrows bewailing,
Thus sang the poor maid,
In the valley below.
Chorus
Version Two:
Early one morning, just as the sun was rising,
I heard a maid sing in the valley below:
"Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so?
"Remember the vows that you made to me truly;
Remember how tenderly you nestled close to me.
Gay is the garland, fresh are the roses
I've culled from the garden to bind over thee.
"Here I now wander alone as I wonder
Why did you leave me to sigh and complain?
I ask of the roses, why should I be forsaken?
Why must I here in sorrow remain?
"Through yonder grove, by the spring that is running,
There you and I have so merrily played,
Kissing and courting and gently sporting,
Oh, my innocent heart you've betrayed!
"How could you slight so a pretty girl who loves you,
A pretty girl who loves you so dearly and warm?
Though love's folly is surely but a fancy,
Still it should prove to me sweeter than your scorn.
"Soon you will meet with another pretty maiden,
Some pretty maiden, you'll court her for a while;
Thus ever ranging, turning and changing,
Always seeking for a girl that is new."
Thus sang the maiden, her sorrows bewailing;
Thus sang the poor maid in the valley below:
"Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so?"
The alarm clock woke me up.
i heard a maiden singing in the valley below
I awoke with a thrust (lol)
I heard a maiden singing in the valley below
Oh don't deceive me
Oh never leave me
How could you use a poor maiden so.
i heard a maiden singing in the valley below
oh never leave me oh don't deceive me how can you use a poor maiden so !!!
first song learnt on the clarinet ! don't worry i have now changed to the rock guitar!
I realized the folly of taking a sleeping pill and a laxative in the same night!
I tasted something quite appetizing....lol
Daylight.
Early one morning, just as the sun was rising,
I heard a maid sing in the valley below:
"Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so?
"Remember the vows that you made to me truly;
Remember how tenderly you nestled close to me.
Gay is the garland, fresh are the roses
I've culled from the garden to bind over thee.
"Here I now wander alone as I wonder
Why did you leave me to sigh and complain?
I ask of the roses, why should I be forsaken?
Why must I here in sorrow remain?
"Through yonder grove, by the spring that is running,
There you and I have so merrily played,
Kissing and courting and gently sporting,
Oh, my innocent heart you've betrayed!
"How could you slight so a pretty girl who loves you,
A pretty girl who loves you so dearly and warm?
Though love's folly is surely but a fancy,
Still it should prove to me sweeter than your scorn.
"Soon you will meet with another pretty maiden,
Some pretty maiden, you'll court her for a while;
Thus ever ranging, turning and changing,
Always seeking for a girl that is new."
Thus sang the maiden, her sorrows bewailing;
Thus sang the poor maid in the valley below:
"Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so?"
I heard a maiden sin-ing-ing blah blah blah blah
work
...I got up early,got dressed to go to work and realised it was Sunday........
my nan sung that to me as a child.....
i heard a maiden singing in the valley below...