Early One Morning, mandolin quartet

[Martin Jonas]

This is a famous English folk song (with its own Wikipedia page here), variously arranged by Benjamin Britten and Percy Grainger. However, the arrangement I have recorded is by Steve Hendricks:

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/Hendricks/Folksong/early1.pdf

I'm switching the melody around between bowlback mandolin, played all tremolo, and tenor guitar.

1890s Umberto Ceccherini mandolin
1921 Gibson Ajr mandolin
Ozark tenor guitar
Suzuki MC-815 mandocello



Early one morning,
Just as the sun was rising,
I heard a young maiden,
In the valley below.

CHORUS:
Oh, don't deceive me,
Oh, never leave me,
How could you use
A poor maiden so?

Martin

[billhay4]

Quite lovely tune, Martin. And, again, an interesting collection of art. Several pieces looked positively American.
Bill