It was a lover (Bertram Luard-Selby)

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• (Posted 2023-11-10)  CPDL #77179:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-10).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 418 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: It was a lover
Composer: Bertram Luard-Selby
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1878 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o’er the green cornfields did pass
In spring time,
The only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing,
Ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love in spring,
Ding a ding a ding.

This carol they began that hour,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
How that a life was but a flow’r,
In spring time,
The only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing,
Ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love in spring,
Ding a ding a ding.

And therefore take the present time,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
For love is crowned with the prime,
In spring time,
The only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing,
Ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love in spring,
Ding a ding a ding.

As You Like It
Act 5, Scene 3