Sugar making (Thomas Martin Towne)

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(Posted 2023-12-13) CPDL #78192:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-13). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 449 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sugar making
Composer: Thomas Martin Towne
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1870 Root & Cady
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Original text and translations

English text

Now the wintry winds retire,
At the ford the ice is breaking,
And the old folks by the fire,
Sit, and talk of sugar making;
’Tis the busy, bustling March,
And the month the question settles,
That ’tis time to mend the arch,
Time to scour the rusty kettles.

O the gladest time of year
Is the merry sugar making,
When the swallows first appear,
And the sleepy buds are waking.

Soon the bluebirds and the bees
O’er the stubble will be winging,
So ’tis time to tap the trees,
And to set the axe a-ringing;
Time to hew and shape the trough,
And to burn the pile so hollow,
For the snow is melting off
And the sugar-thaw must follow.

Crocuses are peeping out
All along the southern border,
So ’tis time to stir about,
Time to put the camp in order;
Time to set the hut to rights,
Where the boys and girls together,
Tend the furnace fire o’ nights,
In the rough and rainy weather.