Hypochondrical (Edward Albert Hanchet)

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• (Posted 2024-05-22)  CPDL #80759:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-05-22).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 270 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Hypochondrical
Composer: Edward Albert Hanchet
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1875 Lee & Shepard
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

I bear about by day and night
The most acute of maladies;
To picture it in black and white
The object of this ballad is.
Permit me, gentle hearer, please,
To breathe in your auricular;
I suffer from the fell disease
Called nothing in particular.

To render it the more intense,
And nearly unendurable,
My Doctor says, in confidence,
’Tis totally incurable.
My mind has threatened, ere today,
To lose its perpendicular,
And fall a melancholy prey,
To nothing in particular.