The Ferry Maiden (Alfred Robert Gaul)

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• (Posted 2023-10-18)  CPDL #76453:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 514 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Ferry Maiden
Composer: Alfred Robert Gaul
Lyricist: Frederic Edward Weatherly
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1878 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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English text

Sir Roland to the river came,
Full blithely there he cried,
“O row me o’er the tide, lassie,
O row me o’er the tide!

A piece of red, red gold, lassie,
I’ll gladly give to thee,
For yonder tower’s my lady’s bower,
And there she waits for me.”

She rowed him o’er the water wide,
She saw him leap to land,
He left a piece of red, red gold,
Within her lily hand.

And many a time she ferried him
Across the water wide,
And every time she dropt the gold
A-down into the tide.

“O row us o’er the tide, lassie,
O row us o’er the tide.
I’ll fill thy lap with red, red gold,
For I have won my bride!”

The water laps among the reeds,
No maiden makes reply,
There in the river by her boat
They see the maiden lie.