Happy is the shepherd's life (John Danby)
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- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-02-07). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 75 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
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Title: Happy is the shepherd's life
Composer: John Danby
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Glee
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1796
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Original text and translations
English text
Happy is the shepherd's life,
Who from care and noise and strife,
In rural toil he spends each day,
In slumbers glides the night away.
A stranger to the cares of wealth,
Possess'd of nought but peace
And that great blessing, health.