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==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== |
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- Editor: Anders Stenberg (added 2005-10-18). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 290 kbytes Copyright: Free for non commercial use
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General Information
Title: A Catch on the Midnight Cats from 'Two Cat Catches'
Composer: Michael Wise
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SSS
Genre: Secular, Canon
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1731-33
Description: The two three part Catches are from the collection "the Chatch Club or the merry Companions... " other catch by R. Brown
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- Performances: Live performance of this work by the dwsChorale (mp3)
Original text and translations
English text
A Catch on Midnight Cats:
- I: Ye Cats that at midnight spit Love at each other
- who best feel the tattered Fur
- if the business of Love be no more to Pur.
- II: Old Lady Grimalkin with Gooseberry Eyes,
- when a Kitten knew Love fit's soon o'er,
- Pus, Pus last not long but turns to Catwhore.
- III: Men ride many miles, Cats tread many Tiles,
- both hazard, both House or a Wall keep their Feet,
- mount their Tails, mount their Tails and away.
A Cat Catch by R. Brown:
- I: We Cats when assembled at Midnight together,
- for innocent Puring, Puring, for innocent Puring,
- puring, in Moonshiney weather.
- II: If Dogs be in kennel, all fast in their straw,
- we march, and we meaw, meaw, meaw
- whitout scratch or a claw.
- III: But if they suprise us, and put us to flight,
- we fret, fret, and we spit, fret fret, spit, spit,
- give a squall, squall and good.