Weaver John (Benjamin Hanby)

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• (Posted 2023-10-24)  CPDL #76595:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-24).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 444 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Weaver John
Composer: Benjamin Hanby
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1867 Root & Cady
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Down in that cottage lives Weaver John
And a happy old John is he;
Maud is the name of his dear old dame,
And a blessed old dame is she.

Whickity, whackity, click and clack,
How the shuttles do glance and ring!
Here they go, there they go, forth and back,
And a staccato song they sing.

Close by his side is this gentle wife
And she’s twirling the flaxen thread;
Sweet to his car is the low wheel's hum,
It was purchased when they were wed.

Kitty is frisking about the room
With her kittens one, two, three, four;
Towser is taking his wanted nap
On the settle behind the door.

Soft as the hum of the dame’s low wheel
Does the music of time roll on;
Morning and noon of a useful life
Bring a peacefully setting sun.