Sweet love for me (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-08)  CPDL #79452:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-08).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 630 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• (Posted 2013-01-10)  CPDL #28013:        (Sibelius 7)

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2013-01-10).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 115 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Sweet love for me
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: John Wotton
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1892 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
Description: Six Elizabethan Pastorals [set 1], Opus 49, No. 4

(DAMÆTAS’ JIG IN PRAISE OF HIS LOVE)

Original text and translations

English text

Fa la la la la la la,

Jolly shepherd, shepherd on a hill,
On a hill so merrily,
On a hill so cheerily,
Fear not, shepherd, there to pipe thy fill,
Fill every dale, fill every plain;
Both sing and say, “Love feels no pain.”

Jolly shepherd, shepherd on a green,
On a green so merrily,
On a green so cheerily,
Be thy voice shrill, be thy mirth seen,
Heard to each swain, seen to each trull;
Both sing and say, “Love’s joy is full.”

Jolly shepherd, shepherd in the sun,
In the sun so merrily,
In the sun so cheerily,
Sing forth thy songs, and let thy rhymes run
Down to the dales from the hills above:
Both sing and say, “No life to love.”

Jolly shepherd, shepherd in the shade,
In the shade so merrily,
In the shade so cheerily,
Joy in thy life, life full of shepherd’s trade,
Joy in thy love, love full of glee:
Both sing and say, “Sweet Love for me.”

Fa la la la la la la.