Lyrics from The Cornwall Carol
- traditional English folksong:

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day,
I would my true love did so chance
To see the legend of my play.
To call my true love to my dance.
Sing, O my love, O my love, my love, my love,
this have I done for my true love.

Then was I born of a virgin pure
Of her I took fleshly substance
This was I knit to man's nature
To call my true love to my dance.
Sing, O my love, O my love, my love, my love,
this have I done for my true love.

Before Pilate the Jews me brought
When Barabas had deliversance
The sourged me and set me at nought
Judged me to die to lead the dance
Sing, O my love, O my love, my love, my love,
this have I done for my true love.

The up to heaven I did acsend
Where now I dwell in sure substance
On the right hand of God,
the man may come into the general dance.

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