The Sleighing song (Jairus Maxson Stillman)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78104:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 413 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Sleighing song
Composer: Jairus Maxson Stillman
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1879 S. W. Straub
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

The moon is up,
The sky is clear,
And keen the cutting air;
The earth is bright
In maiden white,
The trees are brown and bare;

But jingle, jingle, jingle go the bells,
The merry, merry, merry, merry bells,
A music peal of wildest mirth,
The morning breeze it swells.

With arching neck
And lip of foam,
And eye of proud delight,
The prancing steed
Flits on with speed,
To chase away the night.

Away, away,
O’er heath and hill,
Swift as the flying wind;
The din of life,
The city’s strife,
We leave them all behind;