Up was I on my father's farm
On a Mayday morning early
Feeding of my father's cows
On a Mayday morning early.
With a moo, moo here
And a moo, moo there,
Here a moo, there a moo,
Here a pretty moo;
Six pretty maids come and gang along o' me
To the merry green fields and the farmyard.

Up was I on my father's farm
On a Mayday morning early
Feeding of my father's goats
On a Mayday morning early.
With a nan, nan here
And a nan there,
Here a nan, there a nan,
Here a pretty nan;
Six pretty maids come and gang along o' me
To the merry green fields and the farmyard.

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Source: Singing Together, Autumn 1966, BBC Publications

Notes:
The Farmyard, or The Merry Green Fields was noted by Cecil Sharp from Eliza Gardey, aged 74, at Marylebone Workhouse, London, on 22 October 1908 (Sharp MSS ref. Folk Tunes 1984). It was first printed in Sharp, English Folk-Songs for Schools, London: Novello, 1908-1925, No. 985. Also in Karpeles, Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs, II, 425-426, with the singer's name given as "Goodey" (apparently a mistake).

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