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Come, let us a-maying go, | Come, let us a-maying go, | ||
And lightly trip it to and fro. | And lightly trip it to and fro. | ||
The bells shall ring and the cuckoo sing, | The bells shall ring and the cuckoo sing, | ||
And the fife shall play, the drum shall beat, | And the fife shall play, the drum shall beat, | ||
And so we'll pass our time away. | And so we'll pass our time away.}} | ||
[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Classical music]] | [[Category:Classical music]] |
Revision as of 09:26, 9 May 2018
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2018-04-22). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 69 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.
General Information
Title: Come, let us a-maying go
Composer: Luffman Atterbury
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composercreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: Unknown
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Description: Atterbury's setting of a set of lyrics borrowed from a round by John Hilton (d. 1657). This piece was in the repertoire of the Bath Harmonic Society, c.1799.
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Original text and translations
English text
Come, let us a-maying go,
And lightly trip it to and fro.
The bells shall ring and the cuckoo sing,
And the fife shall play, the drum shall beat,
And so we'll pass our time away.