Lyrics
(Folk song)
There was a jolly miller once,
Lived on the River Dee,
He worked and sang from morn till night,
No lark more blithe than he.
And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be,
“I care for nobody, no, not I,
And nobody cares for me.”
See also
- Subject: millers
- Harmony: chords i & V
- Meter: 6/8
- Scale: melodic minor
- Source: The Baby’s Opera, Walter Crane,1877
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
