Canadian song (George J. Webb)

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• (Posted 2024-02-27)  CPDL #79301:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-27).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 439 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Canadian song
Composer: George J. Webb
Lyricist: Susanna Moodie , variation.
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1843 J. H. Wilkins and R. B. Carter
Description: The text is a variation of published versions of Susanna Moodie's poem.

Original text and translations

English text

’Tis merry to hear at evening-time,
By the blazing hearth, the sleigh-bells chime;
And to know each bound of the steed brings nigher
The friend for whom we have heaped the fire:
Light leap our hearts, while the listening hound
Springs forth to hail him with bark and bound.

Our cabin is small, and coarse our cheer,
But Love has spread the banquet here:
And childhood springs to be caressed
By our well-beloved and welcome guest:
With a smiling brow his tale he tells,
While the urchins ring the merry sleigh-bells.

From the cedar swamp the gaunt wolves howl,
From the hollow oak loud whoops the owl,
Scared by the crash of the falling tree;
But these sounds bring terror no more to me;
No longer will I listen with boding fear,
The sleigh-bell’s distant chime to bear.