"When Spring Comes Back To England"

When Spring comes back to England

And crowns her brows with May,

Round the merry moonlit world

She goes the greenwood way:

She throws a rose to Italy,

A fleur-de-lys to France;

But round her regal morris-ring

The seas of England dance.

When Spring comes back to England

And dons her robe of green,

There's many a nation garlanded

But England is the Queen;

She's Queen, she's Queen of all the world

Beneath the laughing sky,

For the nations go a-Maying

When they hear the New Year cry -

"Come over the water to England,

My old love, my new love,

Come over the water to England,

In showers of flowery rain;

Come over the water to England,

April, my true love;

And tell the heart of England

The Spring is here again!"