Come, tuneful friends (Charles Harford Lloyd)

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• (Posted 2023-11-09)  CPDL #77165:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-09).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 551 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Come, tuneful friends
Composer: Charles Harford Lloyd
Lyricist: Harold Boulton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1895 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: To Lionel Benson and the Magpie Minstrels

Original text and translations

English text

Come, tuneful friends, take heart of grace
To sing a stave with me,
With Treble, Alto, Tenor, Bass,
And four-part harmony.

So let us sing of every thing
That minstrels wont to praise,
Of buoyant youth, and budding spring,
And radiant summer days.

Of the hunter’s horn, that’s heard in the morn,
Of forest, field, and flower,
Of warrior bold, and maid love-lorn,
And music’s magic power.

The shrillly Trebles pipe on high,
The mellow Altos moan,
The tender Tenors sob and sigh,
The good Bass holds his own.

Come, tuneful friends, take heart of grace
To sing a stave with me,
With Treble, Alto, Tenor, Bass,
And four-part harmony.