# A May Song

- Music: Alexander Mackenzie (died 1935)
- Words: Alfred Perceval Graves (died 1931)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6508651

## The words

Some go smiling through the grey time,  
Under naked, songless bowers: Some go  
mourning all the May time, ’Mid the laughing  
leaves and flowers, ’Mid the laughing leaves  
and flowers. Why is this, why is this,  
Rosy Bliss Comes to kiss Winter grey?  
Why, ah! why Doth Sorrow sigh On the lap of  
lovely May, On the lap of lovely May?  
Happy love, with song and smiling,  
Through the wither’d woodland goes:  
Hapless love hath no beguiling From the  
redbreast or the rose, From the redbreast or  
the rose. This is why Woods may sigh,  
Flowers die and hearts be gay: This,  
alas! The piteous pass That leaves us mourning  
all the May, That leaves us mourning all the  
May.  

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).