Allan Water (Henry Elliot Button)

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• CPDL #25566:  Sibelius 6

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2012-02-11).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 53 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Allan Water
Composer: Henry Elliot Button

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1907

Description: Originally published by Novello and Co, Part song number 1037. Keyboard accompliment only for rehearsal.

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Original text and translations

English text

On the banks of Allan Water,
When the sweet spring tide did fall,
Was the miller's lovely daughter,
Fairest of them all.

For his bride a soldier sought her,
And a winning tongue had he,
On the banks of Allan Water,
None so gay as she.

On the banks of Allan Water,
When brown autumn spreads its store,
There I saw the miller's daughter,
But she smiled no more.

For the summer grief had brought her,
And a soldier false was he;
On the banks of Allan Water,
None so sad as she.

On the banks of Allan Wa-ter,
When the wintry snow fell fast,
Still was seen the miller's daughter;
Chilling blew the blast.

But the mill-er's lovely daughter,
Both from cold and care was free;
On the banks of Allan Water,
There a corse lay she.