The oak and the ash (John Earwaker)

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Editor: John Kilpatrick (submitted 2007-12-21).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 51 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: The Oak and the Ash
Composer: John Earwaker

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SecularFolksong

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1982

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Original text and translations

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1. A North Country maid up to London had strayed,
Although with her nature it did not agree.
She wept and she sighed, and so bitterly she cried,
"How I wish once again in the North I could be!
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree,
They flourish at home in my own country."

2. "While sadly I roam I regret my dear home,
Where lads and young lasses are making the hay.
The merry bells ring and the birds sweetly sing,
The meadows are pleasant and maidens are gay.
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree,
They flourish at home in my own country."

3. "No doubt, did I please, I could marry with ease,
For where maidens are fair many lovers will come,
But the one whom I wed must be North Country bred,
And tarry with me in my North Country home.
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree,
They flourish at home in my own country."