With joy we leave thee (Tim Porter)

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• (Posted 2007-08-19)  CPDL #14765:  PDF and MIDI files

Editor: Oliver Barton (submitted 2007-08-19).   Score information: A4, 12 pages, 408 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: With joy we leave thee
Composer: Tim Porter

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano. Optional SATB solos, or they can be taken by whole sections or subsections.

First published:
Description: Words: The Duke of Monmouth
This is the final chorus from Tim's opera "The Duke of Monmouth's Maggot". A maggot is, of course, an old English country dance, not what you were thinking. The opera is a full-scale opera, with full chorus and orchestra.

Original text and translations

English text

With joy we leave thee,
False world, and do forgive
All thy false treachery.
For now we'll happy live.
We'll to our bowers,
And there spend our hours;
Happy there we'll be,
We no strife can see;
No quarrelling for crowns,
Nor fear the great one's frowns;
Nor slavery of state,
Nor changes in our fate.
From plots this place is free,
There we'll ever be;
We'll sit and bless our stars
That from the noise of wars
Did this glorious place give
That thus we happy live.