The Turtle-Dove (Jennifer Bastable)
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- (Posted 2024-05-23) CPDL #80762:
- Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2024-05-23). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 343 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Version for soloist + SATB choir.
- (Posted 2024-05-23) CPDL #80761:
- Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2024-05-23). Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 343 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Version for SSATB choir.
- (Posted 2025-10-13) CPDL #87130:
- Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-10-13). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 254 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Unaccompanied folk-song version.
General Information
Title: The Turtle-Dove
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Anon
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: A setting of traditional words, in two versions: for mezzo-soprano or soprano soloist and SATB accompanying choir, or the same music adapted for SSATB choir.
The unaccompanied folk-song version is also given. Through-composed folk-songs are relatively uncommon, but certainly do exist.
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Original text and translations
English text
Fare thee well, my dear, I must be gone,
And leave you for a while.
If I roam away I’ll come back again,
Though I roam ten thousand mile, my dear,
Though I roam ten thousand mile.
Ten thousand mile, ‘tis a very long way,
That from you I must go,
Where there’s many a dark and a dismal night,
And the stormy winds do blow, my dear,
And the stormy winds do blow.
And don’t you see that little turtle-dove
Sitting on the yon high tree,
And a making moan for the loss of his love?
As I will do for thee, my dear,
As I will do for thee.
So when this you see, remember me,
And bear it in your mind,
And be not like the weather-cock,
That changes with the weather and the wind, my dear,
That changes with the weather and the wind.