Let me careless (Thomas Linley the younger)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2021-09-10). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 201 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Let me careless
Composer: Thomas Linley the younger
Arranger: Joseph Barnby
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SATBB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard
First published: 1851
Description: Novello's Glee Hive no.16
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Original text and translations
English text
Let me careless and unthoughtful lying
Hear the soft winds bove me flying,
With all their wanton boughs dispute.
And the more cheerful birds replying,
Till my Delia with her heavenly song,
Silence their wanton boughs, and birds that sing among.