Tom Bowling (Charles Dibdin)

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• (Posted 2019-07-29)  CPDL #54927: 

Editor: Peter Smith (submitted 2019-07-29).   Score information: A4, 67 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Could be performed unaccompanied.

General Information

Title: Tom Bowling
Composer: Charles Dibdin
Lyricist: Charles Dibdin

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2019

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Original text and translations

English text

Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling,
The darling of our crew;
No more he'll hear the tempest howling,
For death has broach'd him to:
His form was of the manliest beauty,
His heart was kind and soft.
Faithful, below, he did his duty,
And now he's gone aloft.

Tom never from his word departed,
His virtues were so rare,
His friends were many, and true-hearted,
His Poll was kind and fair:
And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly -
Ah! many's the Time and oft -
But mirth is turn'd to melancholy,
For Tom is gone aloft.

Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather,
When He, who all commands,
Shall give, to call life's crew together,
The word to pipe all hands:
Thus death, who Kings and tars dispatches,
In vain Tom's life has doff'd,
For though his body's under hatches,
His soul has gone aloft.