A Pretty Maid
Music: Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (1859–1935) · Words: Harold Boulton (1859–1935)
A pretty maid went amaying, And roam’d the
fields afar; And ev’rywhere she went,
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The words
A pretty maid went amaying, And roam’d the
fields afar; And ev’rywhere she went,
With all the world content, She heard the
songbirds saying “How pretty, dear,
you are. Pretty, pretty dear, Pretty pretty
dear, How pretty, dear, you are.”
Her lap with flow’rs was laden, She rested by
a brook, She saw her face below,
And ’mid the water's flow, A voice said to the
maiden “How pretty, dear, you look.
Pretty pretty dear, pretty, pretty dear,
How pretty, dear, you look.”
Her true love stood beside her, She did not say
him nay, But still, as in a dream,
She gazed into the stream, While he with fond
words plied her, And stole her heart away.
“Pretty, pretty dear, I’ve lov’d you for a
year, I'll marry you when I may.”
About this song
- Music
- Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (1859–1935) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Harold Boulton (1859–1935) (dates as IMSLP states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1891, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 1:27
- Its source files it as
- 12 New Songs
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0). “K-pop” and “anime songs” are said only where a source says so. Where songs from scores are offered.