Early one morning (Oliver Barton)
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- CPDL #4931:
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- Editor: Oliver Barton (submitted 2003-04-29). Score information: A4, 6 pages Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Early One Morning
Composer: Oliver Barton
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksongs
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: An arrangement of the folksong, growing from a single voice up to a rapturous moment when fleetingly the first sopranos touch a top Bb. This note is borrowed from Percy Grainger’s setting (except that his is up a tone I think and is therefore a C), but his version breaks into about a million parts and is too tricky for a non-audition choir. Hence this arrangement.
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Original text and translations
English text
1. Early one morning, just as the sun was rising
I heard a maid sing in the valley below
“Oh don’t deceive me, oh never leave me,
How could you use a poor maiden so?”
2. Remember the vows that you made to your Mary,
Remember the bow’r where you vow’d to be true.
Oh don’t deceive me…
3. O gay is the garland and fresh are the roses culled,
I’ve culled from the garden to bind on thy brow.
Oh don’t deceive me…
4. Thus sang the poor maiden her sorrows bewailing,
Thus sang the poor maid in the valley below.
Oh don’t deceive me…