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THE MAY QUEEN.
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So you must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear,

To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year:
To-morrow 'ill be of all the year the maddest merriest day,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.