Five o’clock in the morning

Music: Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869) · Words: Charlotte Alington Pye (1830–1869)

The dew lay glitt’ring o’er the grass,

A mist lay over the brook, At the earliest

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The words

The dew lay glitt’ring o’er the grass,

A mist lay over the brook, At the earliest

beam of the golden sun The swallow her nest

forsook.

The snowy blooms of the hawthorn tree Lay

thickly the ground adorning, The birds were

singing in ev’ry bush, At five o’clock in the

morning, The birds were singing in ev’ry

At five o’clock in the morning.

And Bessie the milkmaid merrily sang,

For the meadows were fresh and fair.

The breeze of the morning kiss’d her brow,

And play’d with her nutbrown hair.

But oft she turn’d and look’d around As if the

silence scorning; ’Twas time for the mower to

whet this scythe, At five o’clock in the

morning, ’Twas time for the mower to whet his

At five o’clock in the morning.

And over the meadows the mowers came,

And merry their voices rang, And one among

them wended his way To where the milkmaid

sang, And as he linger’d by her side,

Despite his comrade’s warning,

The old, old story was told again,

At five o’clock in the morning,

The old, old story was told aAt five o’clock

in the morning.

About this song

Music: Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869) (dates as OpenScore states them)
Words: Charlotte Alington Pye (1830–1869) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
Language: English, as its source states it
First published: in or before 1862, as IMSLP states it
Length: 2:00
The score: OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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