Hunting Song (Henry Thomas Smart)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-02-20). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 139 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd Series) Vol. I, No. 45. MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: Hunting Song
Composer: Henry Thomas Smart
Lyricist: Walter Scott
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1869 in Novello Part-Song Book Series 2, Volume 1, no. 45, p. 49
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Original text and translations
English text
1 Waken, lords and ladies gay,
On the mountain dawns the day,
All the jolly chase is here,
With hawk and hound, and hunting spear:
Hounds are in their couples yelling,
Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,
Merrily mingle, mingle they,
Waken, lords and ladies gay.
2 Waken, lords and ladies gay,
The mist has left the mountain grey;
Springlets in the dawn are steaming,
Diamonds on the brake are gleaming;
And huntsmen all have busy been,
To track the buck in thickets green,
Now we come to chant our lay,
Waken, lords and ladies gay.
3 Louder, louder chant the lay,
Waken, lords and ladies gay,
Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee,
Run a course as well as we,
Time, stern huntsman who can baulk?
Staunch as hound, and fleet as hawk!
Think of this, and rise with day,
Gentle lords and ladies gay.