The Gardener and His Lord

What are you looking at?

I am looking to see if my mother is coming, because I am going to tell you my father's song; and my mother does not want me to sing it.

Why does she not want you to?

It is perhaps because my mother is from Bagnolet.

Tell it, tell it; but do not shout, sing softly.

Musical score for a solo voice in 2/4 time. The melody is printed on five staves, each with a line of lyrics underneath. The music uses standard eighteenth-century notation with G-clefs.

The girls of this Hamlet, the girls of
this Hamlet do not dance to the
bagpipes, do not dance to the bagpipes;
but they must have trumpets; on Sun-
days under the elm tree, trumpets, trump-