Go, Damon go (Philip Hayes)

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• (Posted 2022-03-06)  CPDL #68290: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-03-06).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 162 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Originally written for men's voices, this edition is also available transposed for high voices.

General Information

Title: Go, Damon go
Composer: Philip Hayes
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SSSA or TTTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1786 The Muses' Fancy
Description: "Amarillis' answer to Damon". (presumably intended as a riposte to Thomas Brewer's Turn Amarillis.

Original text and translations

English text

Go, Damon go, Amarillis bids adieu.
Go seek another love and prove to her more true.
As for your pretty arbour by,
Altho' Apollo cannot spy:
'Tis not my choice,
Nor will I sit to hear you play,
Or tune my voice
To warble out one roundelay.