Maggie’s Secret (Charlotte Alington Barnard)

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• (Posted 2023-10-03)  CPDL #75992:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-03).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 182 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Maggie’s Secret
Composer: Charlotte Alington Barnard
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1881 Harper & Bros.
Description: [Ed. Note: Probably an anonymous harmonization of Barnard’s song.]

Original text and translations

English text

Two summers ago when a brave ship sailed
Far away to the golden west,
O nobody knew that my heart went too,
For the secret I ne’er confessed;
A mother took leave of her boy that day,
I could hear her sob and cry,
As I followed her back to her dreary home,
But never a word said I;
So I tell them they needn’t come wooing to me,
For my heart, my heart is over the sea,
But I tell them they needn’t come wooing to me,
For my heart, my heart is over the sea.

I sat by his mother, one mid-summer day,
And she looked me through and through,
As she spoke of her lad who was far away,
For she guessed that I loved him too;
She turned to me fondly, and whispered low,
I was worthy her sailor boy;
My foolish tears began to flow,
Though my heart beat high for joy;
So you see that they needn’t come wooing to me,
For my heart, my heart is over the sea,
So you see that they needn’t come wooing to me,
For my heart, my heart is over the sea.