# Five o’clock in the morning

- Music: Charlotte Alington Barnard (died 1869)
- Words: Charlotte Alington Pye (died 1869)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6623145

## 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.  

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).