The song my mother sings (George J. Webb)

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• (Posted 2024-02-23)  CPDL #79251:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 435 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The song my mother sings
Composer: George J. Webb
Lyricist: Eliza Cook
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1850 Mason & Law
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Original text and translations

English text

It is the song my mother sings,
And gladly do I list the strain;
I never hear it, but it brings
The wish to hear it sung again.
She breathed it to me long ago,
To lull me to my baby rest;
And as she murmured, soft and low,
I slept in peace upon her breast.
Oh, gentle Song! thou hast a throng
Of angel tones within thy spell;
I feel that I shall love thee long,
And fear I love thee far too well.

For though I turn to hear thee now,
With doting glance of warm delight;
In after-years I know not how
Thy plaintive notes may dim my sight.
That mother’s voice will then be still,
I hear it falter day by day;
It soundeth like a fountain rill,
That trembles ere it cease to play.
And then this heart, thou simple Song,
Will find an anguish in thy spell;
’Twill wish it could not love so long,
Or had not loved thee half so well.