DESCRIPTION:
Here is a song in honor of summer, in the merry month of June! This arrangement of "It's a Rosebud in June" is based on the version collected by Cecil Sharp in Somerset in 1904. It is played in the key of Dm (C-G-C, Capo 1). Tablature for this song is available at www.JessicaComeauDulcimer.com.

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It's a rosebud in June and violets in full bloom,
And the small birds singing love songs on each spray. CHORUS

CHORUS:
We'll pipe and we'll sing, Love.
We'll dance in a ring, Love.
When each lad takes his lass
All on the green grass,
And it's all to plough
Where the fat oxen graze low,
And the lads and the lasses to sheep-shearing go.

When we have all sheared our jolly, jolly sheep,
What joy can be greater than to talk of their increase? CHORUS

For their flesh it is good; it's the best of all food,
And their wool it will clothe us and keep our backs from the cold. CHORUS

Here's the ewes and the lambs, here's the hogs and the rams,
And the fat wethers too they will make a fine show. CHORUS