Maid Marian’s Song (Clayton Johns)
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- (Posted 2023-11-02) CPDL #76903:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-02). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 389 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: Maid Marian’s Song
Composer: Clayton Johns
Lyricist: Ednah Proctor Clarke
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1906 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
So-Ho! so-ho! for the hunting
In the crisp October morn,
With the lace of the frost like a kerchief tost
On the black of the twisted thorn!
Dark was the wood ere dawning,
When the moon her bow unstrung,
(When russet and green the tall trees lean,
And never a bird gives tongue)
Till the sun sprang up in scarlet
And hurled his shafts afar,
And the last star fled where the night lies dead
And the meadows of morning are.
Up! up! my lads o’ Lincoln!
Up! up! my merry men all!
The pheasant whirs in the clustered furze,
And hark how the plovers call!
See trampled brake and osier:
Who slept in the bosky hollow?
A stag-of-ten! Up! up! my men!
Oh, follow— follow— follow!
Then ho for the lads o’ Lincoln!
And ho for the hunting morn!
For love that doth woo with the twanging yew
And the lilt of the lusty horn!