The Bonny Hawthorn

The Bonny Hawthorn



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1. [: One midsummer's morn when all nature looks gay
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I met lovely Jeannie a taking the air :]
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I said my lovely creature come tell me where you dwell?
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Beside the bonny hawthorn that blooms in the vale
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that blooms in the vale that blooms in the vale
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beside the bonny hawthorn that blooms in the vale.

2. Now hark bonny Bess to the birds in yon grove
how sweetly they sing when invites her to roam
I said my lovely creature come tell me where you dwell?
Beside the bonny hawthorn that blooms in the vale
that blooms in the vale that blooms in the vale
beside the bonny hawthorn that blooms in the vale.

3. She pressed me and said that my love was sincere
not one on the green was so charming and fair
so I listened with great pleasure to a kind and tender care
beside the bonny hawthorn that blooms in the vale
that blooms in the vale that blooms in the vale
beside the bonny hawthorn that blooms in the vale.

Hey Then Up We Go Jack a Lent

Pyewackett was a British folk band that combined traditional material, much of it from John Playford's English Dancing Master books first published in 1651, with modern instrumentation and some classic American jazz songs from the early to mid-20th century. Their four albums were recorded in the early to mid-1980s. In addition to recording, they also played music for early dances with a caller.

Although it has been nearly a quarter-century since Pyewackett last released an album, the band is still remembered as a favorite by people all over the world.




Jack 'o' Lent or Jack a Lent, was a tradition in England in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.

The effigy was a straw figure which had been dragged about the parish on Ash Wednesday and stoned and abused. Its burning on Palm Sunday was often supposed to be a kind of revenge on Judas Iscariot who had betrayed Christ. It is equally likely that it represents the hated figure of Winter whose destruction prepares the way for Spring. It is a left over pagan tradition that took on Christian meaning and survived until the late 17th and early 18th century in parts of England.

He is mentioned in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.

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