Come, shepherds, sing with me (Thomas Tomkins)
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- Editor: Diana Thompson (submitted 2009-12-25). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 79 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: Come, Shepherds, sing with me
Composer: Thomas Tomkins
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1622 in Songs of 3-6 parts, no. 15
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Original text and translations
English text
Come, shepherds, sing with me
Thrice happy might we be
If we should never see
Love and his misery.
Love, now we hate thy lore,
More than we loved before.
From hence we all have swore
To love false love no more.