Bold Turpin (John Frederick Bridge)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75807:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 718 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Faithful to the 1889 Novello publication for SATB.

• (Posted 2021-02-24)  CPDL #63138:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-02-24).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 271 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Bold Turpin
Composer: John Frederick Bridge
Lyricist: Charles Dickens

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB or ATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Instruments: A cappella

First published:
    2nd published: 1915 Novello and Co.
Description: Inscribed to his friend, E. H. Turpin Esq., Hon. Sec. College of Organists. Romance song sung by Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers.

Original text and translations

English text

Bold Turpin vance, on Hounslow Heath,
His black mare Bess bestrode-er;
Ven there he see'd the Bishop's coach
Acoming along the roader.
So he gallops close to the orse's legs.
And he claps his head vithin;
And the Bishop says, "Sure as eggs is eggs,
This here's the bold Turpin."
Says Turpin, "You shall eat you words,
With a sarse of leaden bullet;"
So he puts a pistol to his mouth,
And he fires it down his gullet.
The coachman he not likin' the job,
Set off at a full gallop,
But Dick put a couple of balls in his nob,
And pervailed on him to stop.