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Wiltshire Community History

Folk Song Information

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Book Title

Author

Date

Notes

Song Title	My love is like the sun
Roud No.	583
Collected From	Bradshaw, William
Location	Bibury
County	Gloucestershire
Collected By	Williams, Alfred
Alternative Title
Tune
Date
Source Primary	WSRO: 2598/36 Packet 2 - Gloucestershire: Williams, A: MS collection No Gl 59
Source Secondary	Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, 20th May,1916, p 3, Part 31, No. 6
Recording

Song Lyrics
Verse 1 Cold winter's gone and past, Pleasant summer's come at last, The small birds are whistling on each tree. Since misfortune's proved unkind, To the dearest love of mine, And he's gone to the Isle of Kildare. Verse 2 I will put on my suit of black, With a fringe all around my back, Gold rings on my fingers I will wear, And straight away he'll appear, From the Isle of Kildare, And I soon shall set sight on him there. Verse 3 My love is like the sun, That through the firmament does run, And always proves constant and true, But I am like the moon, Which does ramble round and round, And every month it is new.

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Notes
Williams, Alfred: Ms / WGS: 'For the three following songs [Joe, the collier's son, 'Twas on an Easter Monday] I am indebted to William Bradshaw, Bibury, the 'Cotswold Village' depicted so admirably by the late J Arthur Gibb. I find, on examination, that Bibury was a highly musical village, and possessed many folk songs on times past. Most of these have disappeared now, since those who sang them are dead: it is good nevertheless, to encounter even the memory of such a state of things.' Transcribed and edited by Chris Wildridge, 2010.