Serving Girl's Holiday
"I've waited longing for today
Spindle, bobbin and spool away
In joy and bliss I'm off to play
Upon this high holiday...
"And spindle, bobbin and spool away
A joy that is high a holiday...
"And when we stop along the track
Unto the inn, this Sunday, Jack
We'll whet my whistle and pay my whack
Upon this high holiday."
Art: "The Maid - Wilhelm Amberg 1862." Lyrics from "Serving Girl's Holiday." Kate Rusby's version (though Maddy Prior's is also awesome.) See the full lyrics here.
Midori Snyder is the author of nine books for children and adults, published in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition....
