The Honey Bee (William A. Lafferty)

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• (Posted 2023-11-06)  CPDL #77024:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-06).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 273 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Honey Bee
Composer: William A. Lafferty
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1883 John Church & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Drinking in the golden sunbeam,
Sipping nectar from the flowers,
Seeking refuge ’neath the blossoms
From the gentle summer showers;
Gliding thro’ the sporting zephyrs,
Soaring o’er the mountain tree,
Nothing in this world’s so happy, light and free,
As the busy little honey bee.

Rising with the morning songster,
Vying with the ant at toil,
Chasing from thy home with terror
Those who wish to share thy spoil;
They have but to try thy temper,
All who would, thy vengeance see;
Nothing in the world can make a person flee
Like an angry little honey bee.