You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow ’ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year; Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day, For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.
Are you ready for May Day? Tomorrow is The International Workers' Holiday. It is also Beltane (or Walpurgisnacht if you wish.) (psst, that last link has an embedded midi, but a really cool Green Man graphic.)
Put up the May Pole, give someone some flowers, or maybe have a rally. Do what feels right.
That little jingle takes me back to the Sixties, when I would stay up late drinking wine and howling with my friends Dave and Josie Hanson. Dave used to sing it, and I can still hear him saying "Wake and call me early, Mother...for tomorrow I shall be Queen of the May," and we all laughed and drank another round. Look! The magnolias and forsythia and hyacinths are blooming! It really is May!