'Obby 'Oss

'Obby 'Oss


With the beat of the drum and the teaser's dance 'Obby 'Oss comes out to welcome May.
At Padstow in Cornwall, at Dawn on May Day, two 'Obby 'Osses come out of hibernation to dance through the town to the insistent beat of the drum... The town heaves with visitors from far and wide, singing as they follow the 'Osses:

 
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Oss, Oss, Wee Oss!

Unite and Unite and let us all unite
For Summer is a-comin' today.
And wither we are going we will all unite in the merry morning of May.

With a merry ring and now the joyful Spring
O give to us a cup of ale and the merrier we will sing.

The young men of Padstow, they might if they would
They might have built a garland with the white rose and the red.

Where are those young men that now here should dance?
For some they are in England and some they are in France.

O where is St George?
O where is he-o?
He's out in his long-boat
All on the salt sea-O.
Up flies the kite,
Down falls the lark-o,
And Ursula Birdwood she had an old ewe
And she died in her own park-o.

With a merry ring and now the joyful Spring
So happy are those little birds and the merrier we will sing.

(As recorded by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy in Padstow around 1960)


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