To mark the start of May

Here is my favourite song sung during this month. The title is "Bring Flowers of the Rarest" and is traditionally sung in May. However, this song is so rare, that even my expert source was not able to find me a download-able version, so you'll just have to settle for the YouTube version.

p.s. May 1 this year also happens to be Ascension Thursday. However, according to the Irish Liturgical Calendar, the solemnity is shifted to the Sunday and instead we celebrated the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker instead.

Bring flowers of the rarest,
Bring blossoms the fairest,
From garden and woodland and hillside and dale;
Our full hearts are swelling,
Our glad voices telling
The praise of the loveliest flower of the vale.

O Mary, we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May,
O Mary, we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May,

Their lady they name thee,
Their mistress proclaim thee,
Oh, grant that thy children on earth be as true
As long as the bowers
Are radiant with flowers
As long as the azure shall keep its bright hue.

O Mary, we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May,
O Mary, we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May,

Sing gaily in chorus,
The bright angels o'er us
Re-echo the strains we begin upon earth;
Their harps are repeating
The notes of our greeting,
For Mary herself is the cause of our mirth.