To drink or to sing is a very fine thing (Theodore Aylward)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2019-08-27). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 57 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: To drink or to sing is a very fine thing
Composer: Theodore Aylward
Lyricist: Anon, probably the composercreate page
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1775
Warren's Collection of vocal harmony
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Original text and translations
English text
To drink or to sing
Is a very fine thing
To enrapture the social soul;
But the wine must be good,
And the words understood,
Or a fig for the song or the bowl.