Ye little birds that sit and sing (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
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- CPDL #16817:
Sibelius 4
- Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-05-07). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 80 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 80 KB, MIDI: 15 KB, Sib4: 48 KB.
General Information
Title: Ye Little Birds That Sit And Sing
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Thomas Heywood - (c. 1575- 1641)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Tenor solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1907
Description: English Lyrics Set 7 - No. 3 - Lyrics: Thomas Heywood - ( c 1575 - c 1650 ).
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Original text and translations
English text
- Ye little birds that sit and sing
- Amidst the shady valleys,
- And see how Phyllis sweetly walks
- Within her garden alleys;
- Go, pretty birds, about her bower;
- Sing, pretty birds, she may not lower;
- Ah me ! Methinks I see her frown !
- Ye pretty wantons, warble.
- You by me are bidden,
- To her is only known my love,
- Which from the world is hidden.
- Go, pretty birds, and tell her so,
- See that your notes strain not too low,
- For still methinks I see her frown;
- Go tune your voices' harmony
- And sing, I am her lover;
- Strain loud and sweet, that ev'ry note
- With sweet content may move her:
- And she that hath the sweetest voice,
- Yet still methinks I see her frown !
- Ye pretty wantons warble.
- Oh fly ! Make haste !
- See, see, she falls
- Into a pretty slumber !
- Sing round about her rosy bed
- That waking she may wonder:
- Say to her, 'tis her lover true,
- That sendeth love to you, to you !
- And when you hear her kind reply,
- Return with pleasant warblings.
- Ye pretty wantons warble.
- Lyrics: Thomas Heywood - ( c 1575 - c 1650 )