The Midges Dance (David Baptie)

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• (Posted 2023-09-18)  CPDL #75502:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 550 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Midges Dance
Composer: David Baptie
Lyricist: Robert Tannahill
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1890 Paterson & Sons
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Original text and translations

English text

The midges dance aboon the burn;
   The dews begin to fa’;
The pairtricks down the rushy holm
   Set up their e’ening ca’.
Now loud an’ clear the blackbird’s sang
   Rings through the briery shaw,
While, flitting gay, the swallows play
   Around the castle wa’.

Beneath the golden gloamin’ sky
   The mavis mends her lay;
The Redbreast pours his sweetest strains
   To charm the lingering day;
While weary yeldrins seem to wail
   Their little nestlings torn,
The merry wren, frae den to den,
   Gaes jinking through the thorn.

The roses fauld their silken leaves,
   The foxglove shuts its bell;
The honeysuckle and the birk
   Spread fragrance through the dell.
Let others crowd the giddy court
   Of mirth and revelry,
The simple joys that nature yields
   Are dearer far to me.