Joy of my earliest days (Henry A. Lambeth)

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• (Posted 2023-11-08)  CPDL #77080:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 386 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Joy of my earliest days
Composer: Henry A. Lambeth
Lyricist: Carolina Oliphant
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: Lowland Scots
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1885 Paterson & Sons
Description: Air: One day I heard Mary sing

Original text and translations

Lowland Scots text

Joy of my earliest days,
Why must I grieve thee?
Theme of my fondest lays,
Mary, I maun leave thee!
Leave thee, love, leave thee!
How shall I leave thee?
Now absence thy truth will prove,
For oh! I maun leave thee!

Think aft on the time that’s gane,
When twa happy bairnies,
We played at penny stane
Amang the green fairnies.
Cauld an’ hot, ear’ an’ late,
There we forgather’d;
Where yows wander’d on the knowes
And Hawkie was tether’d.

When on yon mossy stane,
Wild weeds o’er growin’,
Ye sit at e’en your lane,
And hear the burnie rowin’;
Oh! think on this partin’ hour,
Down by the Garry,
And to Him that has the pow’r
Commend me, my Mary!