BardicArts Song, Chant, Poetry, Stories and Satire for the Pagan Community
This entry made: 03/13/2000

Title: May Day Chant
Lyrics by: Doreen Valiente
Tune:
Date: 1985
Source: http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos201.htm; from "Witchcraft for Tomorrow"; Phoenix Publishing 1985
Recorded on:
Subject: Sababts - Beltane

Here we come a-piping, 
In Springtime and in May; 
Green fruit a-ripening, 
And Winter fled away. 
The Queen she sits upon the strand, 
Fair as lily, white as wand; 
Seven billows on the sea, 
Horses riding fast and free, 
And bells beyond the sand. 


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