The Wooing (Louis A. Coerne)

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• (Posted 2023-10-04)  CPDL #76050:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-04).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 547 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Wooing
Composer: Louis A. Coerne
Lyricist: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1920 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

A youth went faring up and down,
    Alack and well-a-day.
He fared him to the market town,
    Alack and well-a-day.
And there he met a maiden fair,
With hazel eyes and auburn hair;
His heart went from him then and there,
    Alack and well-a-day.

She posies sold right merrily,
    Alack and well-a-day;
But not a flower was fair as she,
    Alack and well-a-day.
He bought a rose and sighed a sigh,
“Ah, dearest maiden, would that I
Might dare the seller too to buy!”
    Alack and well-a-day.

She tossed her head, the coy coquette,
    Alack and well-a-day.
“I’m not, sir, in the market yet,”
    Alack and well-a-day.
“Your love must cool upon a shelf;
Tho’ much I sell for gold and pelf,
I’m yet too young to sell myself,”
    Alack and well-a-day.

The youth was filled with sorrow sore,
    Alack and well-a-day;
And looked he at the maid once more,
    Alack and well-a-day.
Then loud he cried, “Fair maiden, if
Too young to sell, now as I live,
You’re not too young yourself to give,”
    Alack and well-a-day.

The little maid cast down her eyes,
    Alack and well a-day,
And many a flush began to rise,
    Alack and well-a-day.
“Why, since you are so bold,” she said,
“I doubt not you are highly bred,
So take me!” and the twain were wed,
    Alack and well-a-day.