Valentine’s Day (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-19)  CPDL #79599:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-19).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 398 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Valentine’s Day
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: Charles Kingsley
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1910 Stainer & Bell
Description: Four Part-Songs, Op. 110, No. 1.

Original text and translations

English text

Oh! I wish I were a tiny browny bird from out the south
    Settled among the alder-holts, and twittering by the stream;
I would put my tiny tail down, and put up my tiny mouth,
    And sing my tiny life away in one melodious dream.

I would sing about the blossoms, and the sunshine and the sky,
    And the tiny wife I mean to have in such a cosy nest;
And if some one came and shot me dead, why then I could but die,
    With my tiny life and tiny song just ended at their best.