Sir Patrick Spens (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
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- CPDL #24813:
Sibelius 6
- Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2011-10-27). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 82 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Sir Patrick Spens
Composer: Robert Lucas Pearsall
Number of voices: 8vv Voicing: SATB.SATB
with T & B divisi in both choirs
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1938
Description: Piece was edited for The Command Concert, 1938
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Original text and translations
English text
The King sits in Dunfermline town,
Drinking the bloodred wine.
"O! where shall I get a captain bold
To sail this new ship of mine?"
The King has written a broad letter,
And seal'd it with his hand,
And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens,
who was walking on the strand.
To Noraway, to Noraway o'er the foam"
"O! who is it has done this deed,
And told the King of me?
To send us out at this time of the year,
To sail upon the sea.
The anchors break, the top masts lap,
'Twas such a deadly storm.
The ladies wrang their fingers white,
The maidens tore their hair;
O! forty miles from Aberdeen
'Tis fifty fathom deep,
With his comrades at his feet.