Upon a hill, the bonny boy (Thomas Weelkes)

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(Posted 2012-01-09) CPDL #25309:

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2012-01-09). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 25 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a 4th. Spelling modernised.

General Information

Title: Upon a hill, the bonny boy
Composer: Thomas Weelkes

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1608 in Ayres or Phantasticke Spirits for Three Voices, no. 5
Description: Original is SSA.

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Original text and translations

English text

1. Upon a hill, the bonny boy,
Sweet Thirsis sweetly play'd,
And call'd his lambs their master's joy,
And more he would have said.
But love, that giveth lovers wings,
Withdrew his mind from other things.

2. His pipe and he could not agree,
For Milla was his note.
This silly pipe could never get
This lovely name by rote.
With that, they both fell in a sound,
He fell asleep, his pipe to ground.