Maggie’s Secret (Charlotte Alington Barnard)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-03). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 182 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Maggie’s Secret
Composer: Charlotte Alington Barnard
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1881 Harper & Bros.
Description: [Ed. Note: Probably an anonymous harmonization of Barnard’s song.]
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Original text and translations
English text
Two summers ago when a brave ship sailed
Far away to the golden west,
O nobody knew that my heart went too,
For the secret I ne’er confessed;
A mother took leave of her boy that day,
I could hear her sob and cry,
As I followed her back to her dreary home,
But never a word said I;
So I tell them they needn’t come wooing to me,
For my heart, my heart is over the sea,
But I tell them they needn’t come wooing to me,
For my heart, my heart is over the sea.
I sat by his mother, one mid-summer day,
And she looked me through and through,
As she spoke of her lad who was far away,
For she guessed that I loved him too;
She turned to me fondly, and whispered low,
I was worthy her sailor boy;
My foolish tears began to flow,
Though my heart beat high for joy;
So you see that they needn’t come wooing to me,
For my heart, my heart is over the sea,
So you see that they needn’t come wooing to me,
For my heart, my heart is over the sea.