Happy is the shepherd's life (John Danby)

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• (Posted 2022-02-07)  CPDL #67951: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-02-07).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 75 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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Title: Happy is the shepherd's life
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1796
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Original text and translations

English text

Happy is the shepherd's life,
Who from care and noise and strife,
In rural toil he spends each day,
In slumbers glides the night away.
A stranger to the cares of wealth,
Possess'd of nought but peace
And that great blessing, health.