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So let's get right into it. It is May 1st. May Day. I got up this

morning and started singing, it's May, the lusty month of May from Camelot, which my mom loves

that movie. And I don't know, somehow that song is like part of the soundtrack of my childhood. So I got up and started singing that this morning and I put it on normally at breakfast. We listen to classic FM. And I put that on instead, but it was like the old Broadway version. At my husband and daughter were both just looking at me like going, what is this music that you're playing for us?

I was like, it's the lusty month of May. It's May.

So, anyway, I hope that you are having a good May as well.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

May Day, which was a celebration of spring and renewal.

We're going to talk about how our tutor friends would have celebrated May Day, as well as some notable May Day events that happened as well, because there were some things that happened on May Day throughout the 16th century, obviously.

So let's get right into it.

It is a day today, May Day, for drinking, for dancing, for crowning a May Queen, and welcoming warmer days.

It's a day when inhibitions go out the window and all kinds of frolicing happens.

There's also that magical, now is the month of Maying, it's Thomas Morley, I think.

Now is the month of Maying when Mary that's are playing. And I remember singing that in high school chamber choir. I'm sorry,

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