Slaves are they that heap up mountains (John Stafford Smith)
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- Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2002-08-12). Score information: Letter, 24 pages, 280 kB Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: From a collection of Drinking songs
General Information
Title: Slaves are they that heap up mountains
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Canons
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
Slaves are they that heap up mountains,
Still desiring more and more!
We’ll carouse in Bacchus’ fountains,
Never dreaming to be poor.
Give us then a cup of liquor,
Fill it up unto the brim!
For then methinks our wits grow quicker,
When our brains in liquor swim.