Vermont Songs: Maple Is Sweet (Kenneth Langer)
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- (Posted 2025-05-22) CPDL #85026:
- Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-22). Score information: Letter, 14 pages, 205 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Vermont Songs: Maple Is Sweet
Composer: Kenneth Langer
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Chorale
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2025
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Original text and translations
English text
When you see the vapor pillar lick the forest and the sky, you may know the days of sugar making then are drawing nigh; frosty night and sunny day make the maple pulses play till congested with its sweetness it delights to bleed away.
Oh! Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble goes the pan, furnish sweeter music for the season if you can, see the golden billows, watch their ebb and flow, sweetest joys indeed, we sugar makers know.
Do you say you don' believe it? Take a saucer and a spoon, though you're sourer than a lemon, you'll be sweeter very soon. Why, the greenest leaves you see, on the spreading maple tree, though they sip and sip all summer, will the autumn beauties be.
And for home or love, or any kind of sickness, 'tis the thing, take in allopathic doses, and repeat it every spring; until every one you meet, if at home or on the street, will be half a mind to bite you, for you look so very sweet.
When you see the farmer trudging with the dripping buckets home, you may know the days of sugar making then have fully come: as the fragrant odors pour through the open kitchen door, how the eager children rally ever loudly calling "more!"