# O the merry, merry Spring!

- Music: Ann Mounsey (died 1891)
- Words: Charles Mackay
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6649005

## The words

The merry, merry Spring, the bright,  
bright Spring, What joy she shakes from her  
flow’ry wing! When the young bird sings from  
its leafy nest How happy it sleeps on its  
Mother’s breast, How sweet to roam at beauty’s  
side Thro’ glens, and dells, and woodland’s  
wide; How sweet to sit by a fountain clear,  
And whisper love to a Maiden’s ear!  
O the merry, merry Spring, the bright,  
bright Spring, What joy she shakes from her  
flow’ry wing! O the merry, merry Spring,  
the bright, bright Spring, What joy she shakes  
from her flow’ry wing!  
At merry, merry morn, or Evening still,  
How sweet to roam by the balmy hill;  
To cull a wreath of flowrets rare To twine ’mid  
the locks of a Maiden’s hair; How sweet to fly  
from care and strife, And the dull cold round of  
City life, To roam the wood and shady grove,  
And plight our troth, To the Maid we love!  
O! the merry, merry Spring, the bright,  
bright Spring, What joy she shakes from her  
flow’ry wing! O the merry, merry Spring,  
the bright, bright Spring, What joy she shakes  
from her flow’ry wing!  

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).