A-Maying, a-playing (Alec Rowley)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77841:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 579 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: A-Maying, a-playing
Composer: Alec Rowley
Lyricist: Thomas Nashe
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1925 Novello and Co.
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English text

Trip and go! heave and ho!
Up and down, to and fro,
From the town to the grove,
Two and two, let us rove
A-Maying, a-playing:
Love hath no gainsaying,
So merrily trip and go!