My luve is like a red, red rose (John Cornwall)

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• (Posted 2023-10-05)  CPDL #76085:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 430 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Edition uses Burns' Scots.

General Information

Title: My luve is like a red, red rose
Composer: John Cornwall
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, minor divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve 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:
O I will luve thee still, my Dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run:

And fare thee weel, my only Luve!
And fare thee weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ ’tware ten thousand mile!