Too late for the train (William C. Filby)

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• (Posted 2023-10-13)  CPDL #76315:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-13).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 459 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Too late for the train
Composer: William C. Filby
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1910 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: Op. 65

Original text and translations

English text

Run, run, my boy, you’ll be too late,
You’re full a mile from the station;
Time, tide and train will never wait
For the best man in the nation.

I’ve run four miles in breathless haste,
My horse broke down in the lane,
So I must go by the “marrowbone stage”
If I want to catch the train.

The paths are rough, the roads are bad,
They put me quite in a passion;
And, worse than all, I’ve spoiled my clothes
Just made in modern fashion.

How disappointed I shall feel
If I should be too late,
For just outside the terminus
My sweetheart sure will wait.