“Rosebud in June”
Description
Singer celebrates joys of spring, dancing on the green, and sheepshearing.
Notes
This song, a simple pastoral on its face, has ritual overtones. Note the chorus: "We'll pipe and we'll sing, Love/We'll dance in a ring, Love/When each lad takes his lass/All on the green grass/And the lads and the lasses to sheep-shearing go." Ring-dancing was characteristic of rituals in pre-Christian Europe. Other verses have hints of sympathetic magic as well. -PJS
References
- Sharp-100E 93, "It's a Rosebud in June" (1 text, 1 tune)
- DT, ROSEBUDJ*
- Roud #812
- BI, ShH93