Song, Chant, Poetry, Stories and Satire for the Pagan Community |
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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