My Love’s like the red Rose (William Knyvett)

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• (Posted 2023-11-06)  CPDL #77015:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-06).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 539 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: My Love’s like the red Rose
Composer: William Knyvett
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1854 Novello
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Original text and translations

English text

O my Love’s like the red, red Rose
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Love’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my Dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
I can love thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

But, fare thee weel, my dearest love,
O fare thee weel, a while:
And I will come again, My Love,
Tho’ ’twere ten thousand mile.