Early One Morning

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"Early One Morning " (Roud V9617) is a British folk song with lyrics that were first discovered in publications as far back as 1787. A ballad spread in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, dated between 1828 and 1829, has the title " The Lamenting Maid "and refers to a lover who goes to become a sailor.

The now famous melody was first printed by William Chappell in its publication National English Airs c.1855-1859. The melody may have come from the previous song "The Forsaken Lover". Chappell writes in his book Old Time's Old Music :

If I were asked to name the three most popular songs among the servants of the present generation, I must say, from my own experience, that they are Cupid's Garden, I sow seeds of love , and Early morning . I have heard Early one morning sung by servants coming from Leeds, from Hereford and from Devonshire, and by others from the section closer to London. The song... is, I believe it was first printed in my collection.... from one of the song books compiled by Ritson, and strangely enough that almost two copies agree outside the second line, even though the subject is always the same - a complaint of a girl over lost his lover.

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Early morning right at sunrise,
I heard a young waiter singing
in the valley below.

Oh, do not cheat me, Site Oh, do not leave me, Site How can you use
A poor girl so?

Remember that oath You make me really,
Remember how soft You are close to me.

Gay is a wreath Fresh is a rose I was taken from the garden
to bind you.

Here I am now wandering myself as I wonder Why did you leave me? sigh and moan.

I asked about roses why should i be abandoned,
Why should I stay here in sorrow?

Through the wilderness near the flowing springs,
There you and I are playing very cheerfully,
Kissing and courting and gently exercising,
Oh, my innocent heart you betrayed.

Soon you will meet another beautiful girl,
Some pretty girls,
You will try him for a while.

So, ever start
turn around and change,
Always looking for a new girl.

It's like singing the girl,
his grief misses
Thus the waiter sung in the valley below

Oh, do not cheat me, Site Oh, do not leave me, Site How can you use
A poor girl so?

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Folk songs are used in a number of popular folk songs, for example by British composers Benjamin Britten and Gordon Jacob along with Australian composer Percy Aldridge Grainger. The melody formed the opening blade of "Radio 4 UK Theme" by Fritz Spiegl, which was played every morning on BBC 4 radio from late 1978 to April 2006.

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Recordings

• Sarah Brightman, at The Trees They Grow So High .
• Eva Cassidy, in Somewhere .
• Hayley Mills and Nancy Olson sing the song in the 1960 Disney movie Pollyanna .
• Jim Moray sang the song on his album Sweet England .
• Nana Mouskouri at Quand tu chantes .

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TV and Movie Shows

This song has also been used in a number of television programs and movies. Each episode in the first two series of The Adventures of Robin Hood series (1955-56 and 1956-57) was introduced with a collection of scenes sung for the song "Early One Morning".

The song was sung in the movie, Polyanna (1960).

The Friendly Giant's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) program, which aired from 1958 to 1985, used the instrumental version of "Early One Morning" as its cover and cover theme performed on recorders by Bob Homme (actor who plays titular giant), with a harp accompaniment by John Duncan.

The song became Frank Frank's choice of Frank Spencer's sitcom in the BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave' Em .

In the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , "Early One Morning" is used by First Evil as a trigger to make Spike vampires kill humans again; one episode called "Never Leave Me", a line from the song.

In the TV comedy series Will & amp; Grace, Encourage & amp; Hated (2x15), Will Truman plays the opening of the song on a bread stick while waiting for his blind date to arrive.

It was used in at least three episodes of Bonanza . Adam Cartwright (played by Pernell Roberts) sings the song in the episode titled "The Wooing of Abigail Jones" on 3/4/1962 (Season 3, Episode 24). Almost a year later, on February 24, 1963 (Season 4, Episode 22), Julia Grant (played by Pat Crowley) sang it again in the episode titled "The Actress". Then on April 4, 1965 (Season 6, Episode 27), Hilda Brunner (played by Susanne Cramer) sang it for Howard Meade (played by Hoyt Axton) while playing harpsichord in the episode titled "Dead and Lost".

Elizabeth Montgomery performed the song in a 1970 episode of Bewitched where her character, Samantha, was transported back to the 16th century in England and comforted King Henry VIII while harping.

Nicholas Hawell, playing the character of George Arthur, sang this to his initiation ritual as a freshman at Rugby school, in the final episode of the BBC television production of 1971 Tom Brown's Schooldays .

Tessa Peake-Jones, playing the character Mary Bennet sang this song in 1980 production Pride and Prejudice .

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Literary Appearance

The song features prominent features in Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking trilogy.

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References

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External links

• Early Morning - MIDI

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