Good Wine (Ernest John Moeran)
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- Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2021-01-18). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 114 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Good Wine
Composer: Ernest John Moeran
Lyricist: William Browne
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1933
Description: Source Novello and Co. Number 6 from Songs of Springtime
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Original text and translations
English text
Now that the Spring hath filled our veins
With kind and active fire,
And made green liv’ries for the plains,
And every grove a quire:
Sing we a song of merry glee,
And Bacchus fill the bowl:
Then here’s to thee; And thou to me
And every thirsty soul.
Nor Care, nor Sorrow e’er paid debt,
Nor never shall do mine;
I have no cradle going yet,
Not I, by this good wine.
No wife at home to send for me
No hogs are in my ground,
No suit in law to pay a fee,
Then round, old Jockey, round!
Shear sheep that have them, cry we still,
But see that no man ’scape
To drink of the sherry,
That makes us so merry,
And plump as the lusty grape.