The three jolly pigeons (Richard Harvey Löhr)

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• (Posted 2022-06-27)  CPDL #69814:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-06-27).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 269 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.

General Information

Title: The three jolly pigeons
Composer: Richard Harvey Löhr
Lyricist: Oliver Goldsmith
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 The Orpheus (New series) no.249
Description: Composed for, and dedicated to, the Sydney Liedertafel.

Original text and translations

English text

Let school-masters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning.
Let them brag of their heathenish gods,
Their Lethes, their Styxes, and Stygians;
Their quis, and their quaes, and their quods,
They're all but a parcel of pigeons.
Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

When Methodist preachers come down,
A-preaching that drinking is sinful,
I'll wager the rascals a crown,
They always preach best with a skinful.
But when you come down with your pence,
For a slice of their scurvy religion,
I'll leave it to all men of sense,
But you, my good friend, are the pigeon.
Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.

Then come, put the jorum about,
And let us be merry and clever,
Qur hearts and our liquors are stout,
Here's the three jolly pigeons for ever.
Let some cry up woodcock or hare,
Your bustards, your ducks, and your widgeons;
But of all the birds in the air,
Here's a health to the three jolly pigeons.
Toroddle, toroddle, toroll.