When icicles hang by the wall (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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CPDL #16701:
Sibelius4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (added 2008-4-21). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 55 kbytes Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 55 KB, MIDI: 8 KB, Sib4: 40 KB.
General Information
Title: When Icicles Hang by the Wall
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Tenor
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1887
Description: Lyrics from a song in William Shakespeare's play "As you like it"
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Original text and translations
English text
- When icicles hang by the wall
- And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
- And Tom bears logs into the hall,
- And milk comes frozen home in pail;
- When blood is nipt and ways be foul,
- Then nightly sings the staring owl
- Tuwhoo! Tuwhit! Tuwhoo! A merry note!
- While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
- When all aloud the wind doth blow,
- And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
- And birds sit brooding in the snow,
- And Marian's nose looks red and raw;
- When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl
- Then nightly sings the staring owl
- Tuwhoo! Tuwhit! Tuwhoo! A merry note!
- While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
- Lyrics: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , from "Love's Labours Lost", Act V, Scene 2.