Scythe Song (Arthur Foote)

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• (Posted 2023-10-16)  CPDL #76380:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-16).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 436 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Scythe Song
Composer: Arthur Foote
Lyricist: Andrew Lang
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 Arthur P. Schmidt
Description: Four Songs, Opus 68, No. 3

Original text and translations

English text

Mowers, weary and brown, and blithe,
What is the word methinks ye know,
Endless over-word that the Scythe
Sings to the blades of the grass below?
Scythes that swing in the grass and clover,
Something, still, they say as they pass;
What is the word that, over and over,
Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass?

Hush, ah hush, the Scythe was saying,
Hush, and heed not, and fall asleep;
Hush, they say to the grasses swaying;
Hush, they sing to the clover deep!
Hush— ’t is the lullaby Time is singing—
Hush, and heed not, for all things pass;
Hush, ah hush! and the Scythes are swinging
Over the clover, over the grass!