Faithlass Sally Brown (William Hume)

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• (Posted 2023-10-31)  CPDL #76848:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-31).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 902 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Faithlass Sally Brown
Composer: William Hume
Lyricist: Thomas Hood
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, some divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1890 Swan & Co.
Description: “Faithlass” is as appears on original publication.

Original text and translations

English text

Young Ben he was a nice young man,
A carpenter by trade;
And he fell in love with Sally Brown,
That was a lady’s maid.

But as they fetch’d a walk one day,
They met a press-gang crew;
And Sally she did faint away,
Whilst Ben he was brought to.

“Come, girl,” said he, “hold up your head,
He’ll be as good as me;
For when your swain is in our boat,
A boatswain he will be.”

Now Ben had sail’d to many a place
That’s underneath the world;
But in two years the ship came home,
And all her sails were furl’d.

But when he call’d on Sally Brown,
To see how she went on,
He found she’d got another Ben,
Whose Christian-name was John.

“O Sally Brown, O Sally Brown,
How could you serve me so?
I’ve met with many a breeze before,
But never such a blow”:

Then reading on his ’bacco box
He heaved a bitter sigh,
And then began to eye his pipe,
And then to pipe his eye.

And then he tried to sing “All’s Well,”
But could not though he tried;
His head was turn’d, and so he chew’d
His pigtail till he died.

His death, which happen’d in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went and told the Sexton, and
The sexton toll’d the bell.