I spent the morning “swimming” in 60-degree ocean water with a pack of happy teenagers, cleaning up a house rental top-to-bottom (that’s a lot of dishes and laundry, my pets!), and driving back home with me mum and a tide of New Englanders heading west.
Sun setting on orange-dusted tree tops, low rolling mountains layered dusky purple, tangerine, and gray…Oh, New England! Oh, Fall!
I love this song and began singing it to keep myself awake on Route 2 because, you know, it’s near full-dark at 6:30 now.
I learned this from my kids, but it’s nowhere to be found on the web so that I might share the tune with you. Perhaps my Annie and I could record it so you could hear it.
I would love to know if you know it, have heard it, know anything about its origins. I rarely ask for things from you, my doves, but I ask you now.
Autumn Roundelay
Here I sit and wait for you, ‘neath the spreading branches,
Cool the grass with shade and dew, sunlight ’round me dances
Ai loo lee oh lee oh lay,
How my heart is ringing,
Ai loo lee oh lee oh lay,
Songs to you I’m singing
Fall is in the air today, hear the wild geese crying,
Don’t delay, come while you may, snow will soon be flying
Ai loo lee oh lee oh lay,
How my heart is ringing,
Ai loo lee oh lee oh lay,
Songs to you I’m singing
The verses can be sung in a round. It’s the most lovely song, gives me shivers and tears
Happy Fall and Happy Deciduous Leaves Turning Color!
twinklysparkles 
Hiya Twinkly…this is obvious, but did you try to enter a portion of the lyric into one of the lyrics sites? And i wonder if there isn’t a lyric site which has compiled unpublished folk songs…Library of Congress, Smithsonian…maybe even NPR
Mike from Erin’s joint
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Mike, the only thing I found were the lyrics to it on a Canadian folksongs website. Weird. I’ll have to ask at my kids’ school because that is where they learned it and I think we have the music on a page somewhere….in progress.
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