Weighing anchor (George Alexander Macfarren)

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• (Posted 2022-02-12)  CPDL #68033:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-02-12).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 150 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Weighing anchor
Composer: George Alexander Macfarren
Lyricist: John Oxenford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1872
    2nd published: 1880 The Orpheus no.26
Description: From the cantata Outward bound.

Original text and translations

English text

The anchor that we raise,
We waken thoughts of former days,
The waves that round us swell
Some good old story plainly tell.
The lingo that they talk,
A landsman's brain would baulk;
We know it well; where'er we roam,
At sea the sailor ever feels at home.
Then heave and ho, sing rumbelow,
Yo ho, yo ho, and off we go.

We see brave Nelson's shade,
And hear the gallant words he said:
"My men, your duty do,
For England this expects of you;"
Trafalgar's noble fight
Shall cheer our dreams tonight;
We'll spin long yarns of what we've seen,
And shout anew "Britannia and our Queen."
Then heave and ho, sing rumbelow,
Yo ho, yo ho, and off we go.