The Whippoorwill (Cyrus Cornelius Pratt)

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• (Posted 2023-11-30)  CPDL #77720:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-30).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 407 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Whippoorwill
Composer: Cyrus Cornelius Pratt
Lyricist: Nellie J. Main^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 E. T. Pound
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Original text and translations

English text

When the silence of the night
Broods upon the vale and hill,
Then with plaintive voice and low,
Sings the happy whippoorwill.
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill.
When all else is hushed and still
Sings the happy whippoorwill,
whippoorwill, whippoorwill.

In some far sequestered grot,
All the livelong night he sings,
Where the air is calm and still,
Sings the happy whippoorwill.
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill.
This is what the darkness brings,
This the song he ever sings,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill.

Oh, a lone, sad heart has he,
Filled with silence all the day,
But when night comes then he sings
Joyfully his whippoorwill.
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill.
This is what his warbling brings,
Visions of the coming Spring,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill.