Will ye go to Flanders? (Joseph Haydn)

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• (Posted 2020-03-01)  CPDL #57315: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2020-03-01).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 45 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Separate violin part provided

General Information

Title: Will ye go to Flanders?
Composer: Joseph Haydn
Lyricist: Anon

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Solo high
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard, violin accompaniment

First published: 1792 in A selection of Original Scots Songs
Description: Hob. XXXIa.13 Fakesong from the Celtic tweelight

Original text and translations

English text

Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally, O?
O, will ye go to Flanders, my Mally, O?
There we'll get wine and brandy.
Sack and sugar candy,
Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally, O?

Will ye go to Flanders, my Mally, O?
And see the chief commanders, My Mally, O?
You'll see the bullets fly,
And the soldiers how they die,
And the ladies loudly cry, my Mally, O.