With joy we leave thee (Tim Porter)
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- CPDL #14765: PDF and MIDI files
- Editor: Oliver Barton (submitted 2007-08-19). Score information: A4, 12 pages, 408 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: With joy we leave thee
Composer: Tim Porter
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano. Optional SATB solos, or they can be taken by whole sections or subsections.
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Description: Words: The Duke of Monmouth
This is the final chorus from Tim's opera "The Duke of Monmouth's Maggot". A maggot is, of course, an old English country dance, not what you were thinking. The opera is a full-scale opera, with full chorus and orchestra.
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Original text and translations
English text
With joy we leave thee,
False world, and do forgive
All thy false treachery.
For now we'll happy live.
We'll to our bowers,
And there spend our hours;
Happy there we'll be,
We no strife can see;
No quarrelling for crowns,
Nor fear the great one's frowns;
Nor slavery of state,
Nor changes in our fate.
From plots this place is free,
There we'll ever be;
We'll sit and bless our stars
That from the noise of wars
Did this glorious place give
That thus we happy live.