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Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2020-02-13). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 141 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Spring, the sweet spring
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Thomas Nashe

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1880 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 13, no. 366

Description: Words from "A pleasaunte comedie, called Summer's last will and testament "

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Original text and translations may be found at Spring, the sweet spring.

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-{{Vs|1}} Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king;
-Then blooms each thing, then maidens dance in a ring;
-The spring, the sweet spring.
-Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,
-''Cuckoo, cuckoo, pu we to witta wee,
-''Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,
-''The sweet spring.
-{{Vs|2}} The palm and may make country houses gay,
-Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day
-And we hear the birds tune their merry lay:
-''Cuckoo, cuckoo,…
-{{Vs|3}} The fields breathe sweet, the flowers kiss our feet,
-Young lovers meet, old wives asunning sit.
-The fields breathe sweet, flowers kiss our feet,
-In ev'ry street these tunes our ears do greet:
-''Cuckoo, cuckoo,…
-}}
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