Lyrics
(German folk tune, Nursery rhyme arr. by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey)
1. Willie Boy, Willie Boy, where are you going?
May we go with you this sunshiny day?
“I go to the meadows to help with the mowing.
You may go with me and turn the new hay.”
2. Willie Boy, Willie Boy, where are you going?
May we go with you this sunshiny day?
“I go to the brookside to help with the shearing.
You may go with me, the lambs are at play.”
3. Willie Boy, Willie Boy, where are you going?
May we go with you this sunshiny day?
“I go to the garden to gather my flowers,
Come gather flowers, sweet flowers of May!”
See also
- Country: Germany
- Subject: farming / gardens / nursery rhymes / spring
- Meter: 3
- Rhythm:
- Scale: pentachord
- Tones: drmfs
- Source: Every Child’s Folk Songs and Games, Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin, Milton Bradley Company, 1914.
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
