Wake up, sweet melody (Philip P. Bliss)
Music files
ICON | SOURCE |
---|---|
Mp3 | |
File details | |
Help |
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-26). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 456 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Wake Up, Sweet Melody
Composer: Philip P. Bliss
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1869 Root & Cady
Description:
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
Wake up sweet melody!
Now is the hour
When young and loving hearts
Feel most thy power.
One note of music by Moonlight’s soft ray—
Oh, ’tis worth thousands heard coldly by day.
Then wake up sweet melody!
Now is the hour
When young and loving hearts
Feel most thy power.
Ask the fond nightingale,
When his sweet flower
Loves most to hear his song,
In her green bower?
Oh, he will tell thee through Summer nights long,
Fondest she lends her whole Soul to his song.
Then wake up sweet melody!
Now is the hour
When young and loving hearts
Feel most thy power.