There came three merry men (George Merritt)
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(Posted 2023-11-16) CPDL #77396:
- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-16). Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 817 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: There came three merry men
Composer: George Merritt
Lyricist: Walter Scott
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1886 J. Curwen & Sons
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Original text and translations
English text
There came three merry men from south, west, and north,
Ever more sing the roundelay;
To win the Widow of Wycombe forth,
And where was the widow might say them nay?
The first was a Knight, and from Tynedale he came,
Ever more sing the roundelay;
And his fathers, I trow, they were men of great fame,
And where was the widow might say him nay?
The next that came forth, not from Tynedale he hails,
Merrily sing the roundelay;
He’s a Gentleman born, and his lineage of Wales,
And where was the widow might say him nay?
Sir David ap Morgan ap Griffith ap Hugh,
Ap Tudor ap Rhice, quoth his roundelay,
She said that one widow for so many was too few,
And she bade the Welshman wend his way.
But next came a Yeoman, a Yeoman of Kent,
Jollily singing his roundelay;
He spoke to the widow of living and rent,
And where was the widow could say him nay?
So the Knight and the Squire were both left in the mire,
There for to sing their roundelay;
For a Yeoman of Kent, with his yearly rent,
There never was a widow could say him nay.
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