# The Blackbird

- Music: Amy Elsie Horrocks (died 1920)
- Words: May Byron (died 1936)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6637145

## The words

O, have you heard the blackbird,  
Upon the alder spray?  
He whistles high, he warbles low,  
All in the morning gray. He sings of February  
floods,  
He sings of meadows green in daisies drest,  
And fledglings in a mossy nest,  
Beside the woodland way, O gay!  
O gay! Beside the woodland way.  
O, I have heard the blackbird, Upon the alder  
spray.  
He whistled high, he warbled low,  
All in the morning gray: He bid me forth with  
merry cheer,  
While yet the thorn was cold with rime,  
He sang, he sang the songs of blossomtime,  
Beside the woodland way, O gay!  
O gay! Beside the woodland way.  
Come out and hear the blackbird,  
Upon the alder spray!  
Bestrew the wood with violet, And windflow’r  
white as day. The rustling boughs all greenly  
drest  
And ev’ry heart thet loves, that loves the  
spring Shall leap for joy to hear him sing  
Beside the woodland way, O gay!  
O gay! Beside the woodland way,  
O gay! O gay!  
Above the waters clear and cool,  
Just like a boy let loose from school,  
He whistles high, he warbles low,  
All in the morning gray.  
He sings of op’ning primrose buds,  
Of meadows green in daisies drest,  
And fledglings in a mossy nest,  
Beside the woodland way, Beside the woodland  
way.  
He told me where the cowslips grow,  
And where the cuckooflow’rs will blow;  
He whistled high, he warbled low,  
All in the morning gray:  
To meet and greet the youthful year,  
While yewt the thorn was cold with rime,  
He sang, the songs of blossomtime,  
Beside the woodland way, Beside the woodland  
way.  
The tardy spring shall surely yet Bestrew the  
wood with violet, Bestrew the wood with  
violet, And windflow’r white as day.  
Shall rock around the blackbird’s nest,  
And ev’ry heart that loves the spring Shall  
leap for joy to hear him sing Beside the  
woodland way, Beside the woodland way,  
O gay! Beside the woodland way.  
Beside the woodland way.  

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).