The haymaker’s song (Daniel Franklin Hodges)

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• (Posted 2024-05-23)  CPDL #80766:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 402 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The haymaker’s song
Composer: Daniel Franklin Hodges
Lyricist: Camilla Dufour Crosland
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1875 Lee & Shepard
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Original text and translations

English text

The long grass ripples in the breeze,
Which lightly stirs around,
And azure sky and emerald green
The landscape seems to bound:
Up—up, the birds are carolling,
And insects on the wing,
And blithely sounds the mower’s scythe,
And blithe the echoes ring.

Let us sing to our work, a gay roundelay,
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la;
For there’s no work so merry as making the hay,
Tra, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.

The noon-sun darts its rays of fire;
The morn’s fresh breeze is dead,
Or faintly ruffles leaf and flower
As if its strength were sped.
Now, now the emerald green shall fade,
And tawny hues appear;
So let us hasten to the field,
Our comrades there to cheer.

The bright days pass—and summer nights
But seem to veil the sky,
As friend might shade the brow of one
Who lightly slumbered nigh,
Come—come—nor waste another hour,
We’ll load our hay today,
The perfume fills the pleasant air,
And round us seems to play.