Awake! Awake! Lift up your eyes

And pray to God for grace.

Repent! Repent of your former sins

While ye have time and space.

I have been wandering all this night

And part of the last day,

So now I come for to sing you a song

And to show you a branch of may.

A branch of may I have brought you

And at your door it stands.

It doth spread out and it spreads round about

By the work of our Lord’s hands.

Man is but a man, his life’s but a span,

He is much like a flower.

He’s here today and gone tomorrow

So he’s all gone down in an hour.

So now I’ve sung you my little short song,

I can no longer stay.

God bless you all – both great and small -

And I wish you a happy May.