A Canadian boat song (Maurice Arnold)

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(Posted 2024-03-15) CPDL #79538:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-15). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 577 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: A Canadian boat song
Composer: Maurice Arnold
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1901 C. Birchard & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Faintly as tolls the evening chime
Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.
Soon as the woods on shore look dim,
We’ll sing at St. Ann’s our parting hymn.
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near and the daylight’s past.

Why should we yet our sail unfurl?
There is not a breath the blue wave to curl.
But when the wind blows off the shore,
Oh! sweetly we’ll rest our weary oar.
Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near and the daylight’s past.