Come to the Fair (Easthope Martin)
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General Information
Title: Come to the Fair
Composer: Easthope Martin
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Folksongs
Language: English
Instruments: piano
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Original text and translations
English text
- The sun is ashining to welcome the day,
- Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- The folk are all singing so merry and gay,
- Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- All the stalls on the green are as fine as can be with trinkets and tokens so pretty to see,
- So, it's come then, maidens and men, to the fair in the pride of the morning.
- So deck yourselves out in your finest array, with a
- Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- The fiddles are playing the tune that you know:
- "Heigh-ho! come to the fair!"
- The drums are all beating, away let us go,
- Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- There'll be racing and chasing from morning till night, And roundabouts turning to left and to right,
- So, it's come then, maidens and men, to the fair in the pride of the morning.
- So lock up your house, there'll be plenty of fun,
- And it's Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- For lovemaking too, if so be you've a mind,
- Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- For hearts that are happy are loving and kind,
- Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- If "Haste to the wedding" the fiddles should play, I warrant you'll dance to the end of the day;
- Come, then, maidens and men, To the fair in the pride of the morning.
- The sun is ashining to welcome the day,
- With a Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- Maidens and men, maidens and men,
- Come to the fair in the morning,
- Heigh-ho! come to the fair!
- Helen Taylor
