Viking Song (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)

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• (Posted 2023-10-14)  CPDL #76343:       

Editor: Johannes Becker (submitted 2023-10-14).   Score information: A4, 4+5 pages, 226 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down one note, 4 pages choir only, 5 pages Piano score, Lilypond files attached to PDF.

• (Posted 2023-10-05)  CPDL #76067:       

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-05).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 478 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2013-03-18)  CPDL #28559:       

Editor: Johannes Becker (submitted 2013-03-18).   Score information: A4, 4+2 pages, 221 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Piano score on 4 pages to avoid page turning. Also 2 pages vocals only included.

• (Posted 2011-10-27)  CPDL #24810:        (Sibelius 6)

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2011-10-27).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Viking Song
Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Lyricist: David McKee Wright
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1911 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Song of Deliverance is a contrafact of this work, published in 1918.

Original text and translations

English text

Clang, clang, clang on the anvil,
    In the smithy by the dark North Sea;
Is it Thor that is smiting with the hammer,
    Is it Odin with the leather on his knee?
          Clang, clang, clang on the anvil
          There are steel ships wanted on the sea!

Clang, clang, clang on the anvil,
    And the flames of the forges leap.
Old Thor, with his red beard glowing,
    Has his eyes on the furrows of the deep.
          Clang, clang, clang on the anvil
          For the forge of the Viking may not sleep!

Clang, clang, clang on the anvil,
    And the hammers of the island leap;
Britania with her bright hair glowing,
    Has her eye on the furrows of the deep.
          Clang, clang, clang on the anvil,
          For the blood of the Viking may not sleep!

Clang, clang, clang on the anvil,
    On the margin of the soul-bright sea;
Is it Odin that is watching in the shadow?
    Is it Thor where the sparks fly free?
          Clang, clang, clang on the anvil,
          There are steel ships wanted on the sea.

published in the Sydney Bulletin