Good morrow (Agnes Zimmermann)

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• (Posted 2023-12-19)  CPDL #78361:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-19).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 844 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2019-07-05)  CPDL #54691:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-07-05).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 118 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Good morrow
Composer: Agnes Zimmermann
Lyricist: Thomas Heywood

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella or Keyboard

First published: 1871 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 4, no. 123
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Original text and translations

English text

Pack clouds away and welcome day,
With night we banish sorrow;
Sweet air, blow soft, mount larks aloft
To give my love good morrow.
Wings from the wind to please her mind,
Notes from the lark I’ll borrow;
Bird, prune thy wing, nightingale, sing,
To give my love good morrow.

Wake from thy nest, Robin Redbreast,
Sing birds in every furrow;
And from each hill, let music shrill
Give my fair love good-morrow!
Blackbird and thrush in every bush,
Stare, linnet, and cock-sparrow.
You pretty elves, amongst yourselves,
Sing my fair love good morrow.