The Dashing White Sergeant (Hugh S. Roberton)

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• (Posted 2024-06-21)  CPDL #81001:         

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2024-06-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This edition does not have the Gaelic words, only the English translation by Hugh Roberton. The DS is probably due to the 2 verses of the Gaelic, so if sung in English the repeat can be omitted.

General Information

Title: The Dashing White Sergeant
Composer: Hugh S. Roberton
Lyricist: Hugh S. Roberton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1944
Description:  Work originally publish by Curwen and Son Ltd. The score has two verses of Gaelic words, which were by Bruce B. Blackwood.

Original text and translations

English text

Now the fiddler's ready, let us all begin!
So step it out and step it in,
To the merry music of the violin
We'll dance the hours away.

Katey and Peggy and Patsy and Coll,
Callum and Peter and Flora and Moll,
Dance away the hours together,

Dance till dawn be a the sky;
What care you, and what care I?
Hearts a beating, spirits high
We'll dance, dance, dance! Now the dance!