Me, me and none but me (John Dowland)

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• (Posted 2017-02-16)  CPDL #43151:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2017-02-16).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 41 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Reformatting of #16835.

• (Posted 2008-08-16)  CPDL #17921:     

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2008-08-16).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 91 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: SATB plus lute tablature (6- or 7-course, tenor G tuning).

• (Posted 2008-05-07)  CPDL #16835:         

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2008-05-07).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 20 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Me me and none but me
Composer: John Dowland

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Lute song

Language: English
Instruments: Lute

First published: 1603 in The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires, no. 5
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Me, me and none but me, dart home O gentle death
and quicklie, for I draw too long this idle breath:
O howe I long till I may fly to heaven above,
unto my faithfull and beloved turtle dove.

Like to the silver Swanne, before my death I sing:
And yet alive my fatall knell I helpe to ring.
Still I desire from earth and earthly joyes to flie,
He never happie liv’d, that cannot love to die.