One Morning in May - James Taylor

One morning, one morning, one morning in May

I spied a young couple, a making their way

One was a lady so dainty and fair

And one was a soldier a brave volunteer

Good morning, good morning, good morning said he

Where be you going my pretty lady

Oh I’m going out walking because it is spring

Just to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing

Just to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing

They had not been standing but a minute or two

When out of his knapsack a fiddle he drew

And the tune that he played thru the valley did ring

Oh hark said the maiden hear the nightingale sing

Oh hark said the maiden hear the nightingale sing

Said the soldier to the lady its time to give o’er

Oh no pretty soldier play just one tune more

For I’d rather listen to the touch of your string

Than to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing

Than to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing

Said the lady to the soldier will you marry me

Oh no pretty lady that never can be

I’ve a wife in olde England and children twice three

One wife and the army is a plenty for me

One wife and the army is a plenty for me

Well I’ll go back to olde England and I’ll stay there a year

And it’s often that I’ll think of you my little dear

And if I return it will be in the spring

Just to see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing

To see the waters glide and hear the nightingale sing