words:  Tom Baxter
tune:  mostly Tom Baxter, with some help from Mozart.  Think the seduction aria from "Don Giovanni".


Oh, will you come and dance with me
Just as the day is dawning?
All underneath the greenwood tree
Upon this May day morning.

	chorus:
     To welcome in the summer time (2X)
     Come dance, come sing, come form a ring
     Upon this May day morning.
     (repeat chorus)

The dancers all are gathered here
The pipes and fiddles tuning.
Their music soon shall fill the air
Upon this May day morning.

     It is the ancient holiday (2X)
     Come dance, come sing, come form a ring
     Upon this May day morning.
     (repeat chorus)

Oh, where are our first squires gone?
By the Cayahuga burning  (or St. Lawrence churning)
They're dancing there upon the lawn
Upon this May day morning.

     To banish all the winter's chill (2X)
     Come dance, come sing, come form a ring
     Upon this May day morning.
     (repeat chorus)

And the one who brought us honey wine
To toast the seasons' turning
She's dancing in a warmer clime
Upon this May day morning.

     To wake the sleeping fields again (2X)
     Come dance, come sing, come form a ring
     Upon this May day morning.
     (repeat chorus)

Dear summer friends both near and far
Departing or returning
May there be dancing where you are
Upon this May day morning.

     And flowers in a hal an tow (2X)
     Come dance, come sing, come form a ring
     Upon this May day morning.
     (repeat chorus)

(REPEAT FIRST VERSE)

copyright 1994 Thomas Baxter