Come, celebrate the May (John Liptrot Hatton)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-25). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 352 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-04-09). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 82 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Come, celebrate the May
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Mary Cowden Clarke
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1869 in Novello Part-Song Book (2nd Series), Vol. 1, no. 58
Description: Six Choral Songs (1864), No.3
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Original text and translations
English text
Come, celebrate the May,
Let's have a roundelay,
And, mirthful as a fay,
We'll dance and sing the day,
The livelong day of May!
The sun shall shed his ray,
In dazzling light shall play,
And gilding ev'ry spray,
Illuminate the day,
The glorious day of May!
Come, lads and lasses, say,
With heart and voice full gay,
How earnestly we pray,
This brilliant first of May
May prove a happy day!