Bacchanalian song (John Liptrot Hatton)

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• (Posted 2019-10-04)  CPDL #55512:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-10-04).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 97 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Bacchanalian song
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 1874 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 7, no. 225

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Original text and translations

English text

Now, boys, we've met tonight,
Rosy hours to borrow;
See, the wine is sparkling bright,
Away with care or sorrow.
Here will we sit awhile,
Quaffing brightest sherry,
And so the time beguile,
Making life thus merry.
Let each man toast a pretty lass,
I drink most gladly;
Winged Cupid's in the glass,
And sit there sighing sadly.
Now drink! Now drink! Now drink!
Hip, hip, hip, hip, hurrah!
Now, boys, we've met tonight,
Rosy hours to borrow;
See, the wine is sparkling bright,
Away with care or sorrow.
Hip, hip, hurrah!