What is it about dew and mulberry trees?

[skydove]

I've come across 'dew flying over the mulberry tree' in 2 folk songs, In one The Lusty Blacksmith it seems sexual, ejaculatory and the other "Juniper Gentle and Rosemary its a chorus in a song about 3 sisters after one knight so again sexual connotations. Has anybody come across this paring anywhere else or do you have any other information.
I do remember a rock song with part of it saying "walk me out in the morning dew" maybe Beltaine echoes?

[Oneonine]

The black mulberry is an age-old aphrodisiac.

It is associated with the tragic lovers Pyramus and Thisbe, the red stains below a mulberry tree symbolizing the blood from their broken hearts.

It was Minerva/Athena's sacred plant before the olive.

Round and round the mulberry bush has connotations of maypoles.

Red, black white colour scheme sacred colours.

The dew part I would guess comes from a variety of mistletoe that grows on mulberrys, same aspects of health and viality giving properties. Not sure if the mulberry mistletoe parasite has the white bead like berries. If so, same semen-like aspects would prevail in folklore around it. Might have been the mistletoe of preference of the ancestors of the celts before they reached europe.

[wyeuro]

jennifer gentle and rosemarie is a very old song passed down orally from a time when english wasn't quite as it is now. often words that don't make sense, such as 'the dew flies over the mulberry tree' are garbled interpretations of words now long forgotten, whose meaning is gone forever, but people prefer nonsense to gaps in their traditional songs, and i agree. it's a lovely song with a lot of very strange magic in it, and it's the better for its enigmatic refrain.