The Turtle Dove (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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(Posted 2021-09-28) CPDL #65913:

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2021-09-28). Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 68 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Turtle Dove
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB + Solo Baritone
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1924
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Fare you well my dear I must be gone
and leave you for a while
If I roam away I'll come back again
Though I roam ten thousand miles, my dear
Though I roam ten thousand miles
So fair though art my bonney lass
So deep in love as I
But I never will prove false to the bonney lass I love
Till the stars fall from the sky my dear
Till the stars fall from the sky
The sea will never run dry my dear
Nor the rocks never melt with the sun
But I never will prove false to the bonney lass I love
Till all these things be done my dear
Till all these things be done
O yonder doth sit that little turtle dove
He doth sit on yonder high tree
A making a moan for the losee of his love
As I will do for thee my dear
As I will do for thee

The Turtle Dove (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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