Hunter’s Chorus (Horatio Richmond Palmer)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-26). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 449 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Hunter’s Chorus
Composer: Horatio Richmond Palmer
Lyricist: Philip Paul Bliss
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1872 John Church & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Lo, the bright crimson, the sky adorning,
Heralds a beautiful, smiling morning;
Echoes resounding o’er hill and valley,
Blithely away to the field we rally,
While softly the mists on the hilltop lying,
Bugles their tan-ta-rah sweetly singing
Tan-ta-rah, tan-ta-rah, ho, ho, ho!
On to the field we are flying,
Wildly the echoes replying,
On like the breeze we are bounding,
Silvery bugles resounding;
Tan-ta-rah, tan-ta-rah,
List to the winding horn;
Sweet the sound of bugle horn,
When borne afar on the breath of morn;
Yes, sweet the sound of bugle horn
When borne on the breath of morn.
O’er moat and stile we dash, we bound,
Unheeding all but the bugle’s sound.
On like the breeze we’re bounding,
Bugles so sweetly sounding,
Tan-ta-rah, tan-ta-rah, ho! ho! ho!