Press the play button (above) to hear verse 1 of this arrangement.
 
Sarah Morgan's score is in four parts - melody in the Tenor. There are four verses plus a repetition of verse 1.
 
This was probably a theatre or light opera song to begin with. Lucy Broadwood published April Morning in the Journal of the Folk Song Society in 1910. And William Chappel, the music publisher, has another, earlier version. Writing in the mid-19th century, he said that this song was one of
the ‘most popular songs amongst-servant maids’.