The oak and the ash (Jeremy Rawson)
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CPDL #19772:
- Editor: Jeremy Rawson (submitted 2009-07-14). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 47 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Oak and the Ash
Composer: Jeremy Rawson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2007
Description: An arrangement of the English folk song for unaccompanied SATB. This is one of Ten British Folk Song arrangements. See the composer page for the others.
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Original text and translations
English text
A North Country maid up to London had strayed,
Although with her nature it did not agree.
She wept and she sighed, and so bitterly she cried,
"How I wish once again in the North I could be!
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree,
They flourish at home in my own country."
"While sadly I roam I regret my dear home,
Where lads and young lasses are making the hay.
The merry bells ring and the birds sweetly sing,
The meadows are pleasant and maidens are gay.
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree,
They flourish at home in my own country."
"No doubt, did I please, I could marry with ease,
For where maidens are fair many lovers will come,
But the one whom I wed must be North Country bred,
And tarry with me in my North Country home.
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree,
They flourish at home in my own country."