(Words from Alfred William's 'Folk Songs of the Upper Thames, but presumed by the Journal to be associated)

The maid of the mill is a sweet pretty girl,
The maid of the mill for me!
The maid of the mill is a sweet pretty girl,
The maid of the mill for me!
She's as straight and as tall as a poplar tree,
And her cheeks are as red as a rose;
She's one of the fairest young girls that you see,
When she's dressed in her Sunday clothes.



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Source: Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, 1931

Notes:
This appears in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, 1931, in an article by Anne G Gilchrist entitled "A Pipe-and-tabor morris-tune: The Maid of the Mill."

She explains "The above gay little morris-tune - quite different from other tunes known by the same title, and also used for morris- and country-dancing, was noted by Frank Kidson in 1901, from an old pipe and tabor player near Oxford, and was sent to me at the time."



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