Hark! How the jolly huntsman's cries (Philip Hayes)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-03-06). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 166 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Hark! How the jolly huntsman's cries cries
Composer: Philip Hayes
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A capella
First published: 1786 The Muses' Fancy
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Original text and translations
English text
Hark! How the jolly huntsman's cries,
In concert with the op'ning hounds,
Rend the wide concave of the skies,
And tire dull echo with their sounds.
Ah me! The sprightly-bounding doe,
The chase, and everything I view,
Still to my mind recall my woe;
So Celia flies, so I pursue.