Early One Morning lyrics

Early one morning,

Just as the sun was rising,

I heard a young 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]

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Arou_ on 2018-01-15

Submitter's comments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_One_Morning wrote:

"Early One Morning" (Roud V9617) is an English folk song with lyrics first found in publications as far back as 1787. A broadside ballad sheet in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, dated between 1828 and 1829 has the title "The Lamenting Maid" and refers to the lover leaving to become a sailor.

The now well-known melody was first printed by William Chappell in his publication National English Airs c.1855-1859. The melody may be derived from an earlier song "The Forsaken Lover". Chappell wrote in his later Popular Music of the Olden Time:

Quote:

If I were required to name three of the most popular songs among the servant-maids of the present generation, I should say, from my own experience, that they are "Cupid's Garden", "I sow'd the seeds of love", and "Early one morning". I have heard "Early one morning" sung by servants who came from Leeds, from Hereford and from Devonshire, and by others from parts nearer to London. The tune... was, I believe first printed in my collection.... from one of the penny song-books collected by Ritson, and it is curious that scarely any two copies agree beyond the second line, although the subject is always the same - a damsel's complaint for the loss of her lover.

The lyrics were taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_One_Morning as well.