Greenwood Song

Afar and away on a green-wooded hill

Dee-diddle-dee-dee the blackbird does trill

Ring-a-ding-ding like a brook and a rill

Song of the greenwood, and my heart’s thrill

Take me on the wings of a blue butterfly

On sweet-scented pastures of grass let me lie

Let me gaze as the waters of the river flow by

My heart’s in the greenwood until I die

Deep in the greenwood will I make my nest

Deep in the shadow of a craggy hill-crest

There will I fly home and there will I rest

Home in the greenwood that I love best