Come live with me (John Kilpatrick)
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- Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2011-06-19). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 55 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Come live with me
Composer: John Kilpatrick
Lyricist: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
(div.)
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2011
Description: Composed for a wedding. Duration about 3 minutes.
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Original text and translations
Marlowe wrote a further verse which is not used in this composition.
English text
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountain yields.
There we will sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
With a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.