Come merry lads (Henry Youll)
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- Editor: Monique Rio (submitted 2016-08-24). Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 291 kB Copyright: CC BY 4.0
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General Information
Title: Come Merry Lads
Composer: Henry Youll
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SST
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: Unknown
First published: 1608 in Canzonets to Three Voyces
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Original text and translations
English text
Come, merry lads, let us away,
For Phillida, our shepherds' queen,
About the maypole there doth stay,
With all her virgins clad in green.
Hark, hark, I heard the bagpipe's sound,
While they dance lightly on the ground.