An Old Song Re-sung (Charles Tomlinson Griffes)
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CPDL #17677:
- Source: Internet Archive (added 2008-07-22). Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 794 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Edition in A Flat Major.
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General Information
Title: An Old Song Re-sung
Composer: Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Lyricist: John Masefield (1878-1967)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: circa 1920
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Original text and translations
English text
- I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing, a-sailing,
- With emeralds and rubies and sapphires in her hold;
- And a bosun in a blue coat bawling at the railing,
- Piping a silver call that had a chain of gold;
- The summer wind was failing and the tall ship rolled.
- I saw a ship a-steering, a-steering, a-steering,
- With roses in red thread worked upon her sails;
- With sacks of purple amethysts, the spoils of buccaneering,
- Skins of musky yellow wine, and silks in bales,
- Her merry men were cheering, hauling on the brails.
- I saw a ship a-sinking, a-sinking, a-sinking,
- With glittering sea-water splashing on her decks,
- With seamen in her spirit-room singing songs and drinking,
- Pulling claret bottles down, and knocking off the necks,
- The broken glass was chinking as she sank among the wrecks.
