Stay, pry’thee, stay (Henry Rowley Bishop)

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• (Posted 2023-09-24)  CPDL #75708:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-24).   Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 941 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Stay, pry’thee, stay
Composer: Henry Rowley Bishop
Lyricist: J. Pocock^{create page}
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1864 Novello, Ewer & Co.
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English text

Stay, pry’thee stay, the night is dark,
The cold wind whistles! Hark!
Pray come away, the way is lone;
The ford is deep, the boat is gone,
And mountain torrent swell the flood;
And robbers lurk within the wood.
Here you must stay ’til morning bright
Breaks thro’ the dark and dismal night;
And merrily sings the rising lark,
And hushed the night-bird, hark!
Here you must stay ’til morning bright
Breaks through the dark and dismal night.