There was a jolly miller once,
Lived on the river Dee;
He worked and sang from morn till night;
No lark more blithe than he.


Love in a Village (a comic opera with music by Thomas Arne, 1762) act 1, sc. 2


There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sang from morn till night; No lark more blithe than he.

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sang from morn till night; No lark more blithe than he.

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sang from morn till night; No lark more blithe than he.

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sang from morn till night; No lark more blithe than he.