Welcome Homesteading Lifestylers! Could we ask for anything more than June’s
blue skies, warm sunshine and maybe a bit more Slow Living?
Here’s a WONDERFUL description of the homesteading lifestyle from back in the good ole days. No, it’s not a poem, its a traditional song! “Rosebud In June” is a traditional folk song “collected“ by Cecil Sharp in Somerset in 1904. I first heard it in 1972 when my sister introduced me to a folk/rock band known as Steeleye Span. It was on their album titled “Below the Salt.” And I learned to sing most of the songs on their wonderful record!
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It’s a rosebud in June and the violet’s in full bloom
And the small birds are singing love songs on each spray.
We’ll pipe and we’ll sing love.
We’ll dance in a ring love.
When each lad takes his lass
All on the green grass.
And it’s oh to plough where the fat oxen graze low
And the lads and the lasses to sheep shearing go.
When we have all sheared our jolly, jolly sheep,
What joy can be greater than to talk of their increase.
We’ll pipe and we’ll sing love.
We’ll dance in a ring love.
When each lad takes his lass
All on the green grass.
And it’s oh to plough where the fat oxen graze low
And the lads and the lasses to sheep shearing go.
For their flesh it is good, it’s the best of all food,
And their wool it will clothe us and keep our backs from the cold.
We’ll pipe and we’ll sing love.
We’ll dance in a ring love.
When each lad takes his lass
All on the green grass.
And it’s oh to plough where the fat oxen graze low
And the lads and the lasses to sheep shearing go.
Here’s the ewes and the lambs, here’s the hogs and the rams,
And the fat wethers too they will make a fine show.
We’ll pipe and we’ll sing love.
We’ll dance in a ring love.
When each lad takes his lass
All on the green grass.
And it’s oh to plough where the fat oxen graze low
And the lads and the lasses to sheep shearing go.
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And without further adieu, here’s a rendition from Yours Truly!
Please enjoy!
