WHEN DAFFODILS BEGIN TO PEER

This is the first song sung by Autolycus, Shakespeare's only representative of a

genuine ballad-monger. It appears in The Winter's Tale, Act IV, Scene 3. The tune
given without identification in Caulfield is attributed by Baring-Gould to Dr. Boyce.

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1.When daf - fo - dils be - gin to peer, With
2.The white sheet blea - ching on the edge, With

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heigh the do - xy o - ver the dale. Why then comes in the
heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pug - ging

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sweet o the year For the red blood runs in the win - ter's pale.
tooth an edge, For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

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3.The lark that tir - ra - tir - ra chants, With

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heigh, with heigh, the trush and the jay, Are sum - mer songs for

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me and my aunts, While we lie tum - bling in the hay.

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