My Heart is sair (Henry Elliot Button)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-29). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 236 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: My Heart is sair
Composer: Henry Elliot Button
Lyricist: Robert Burns
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1907 Novello and Co.
Description: Traditional
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Original text and translations
English text
My heart is sair, I daurna tell,
My heart is sair for somebody,
I could wake a winter’s night,
For the sake o’ somebody,
Oh, hon! for somebody!
Oh, hey! for somebody!
I could range the world around
For the sake o’ somebody.
Ye powers that smile on virtuous love,
Oh! sweetly smile on somebody;
Frae ilka danger keep him free,
And send me safe my somebody.
Oh, hon! for somebody!
Oh, hey! for somebody!
I wad dae what wad I no’?
For the sake o’ somebody.