The keel row (Thomas Dunhill)

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• (Posted 2023-10-11)  CPDL #76229:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 516 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The keel row
Composer: Thomas Dunhill
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1907 Novello and Co.
Description: Old Border folksong

Original text and translations

English text

As I came down the Sandgate,
I heard a lassie sing.
O! merry may the keel row,
The ship that my love’s in!

My love he wears a bonnet,
A snawy rose upon it,
A dimple on his chin.
O! merry may the keel row,
The ship that my love’s in!

And soon I learnt her lover,
Had landed from the Rover,
And joined her in the strain.
O! merry may the keel row,
The ship that my love’s in!