Lyrics or Keywords

Fare you 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 miles, my dear
Though I roam ten thousand miles
So fair though art my bonney lass
So deep in love as I
But I never will prove false to the bonney lass I love
Till the stars fall from the sky my dear
Till the stars fall from the sky
The sea will never run dry my dear
Nor the rocks never melt with the sun
But I never will prove false to the bonney lass I love
Till all these things be done my dear
Till all these things be done
O yonder doth sit that little turtle dove
He doth sit on yonder high tree
A making a moan for the losee of his love
As I will do for thee my dear
As I will do for thee

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in brown book: Five Centuries of Choral Music

People

Composer
Folksong
Arranger
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Tags

Tradition(s)
Secular
Language(s)
English

Musicality

Instrumentation
A Cappella
Voicing
SSATB
Rote
Solo
Solo notes
Baritone Solo

Music

Copy type
Octavo
Sheet music
Five Centuries of Choral Music

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