I love my love (Gustav Holst)
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- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2020-07-13). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 189 kB Copyright: Personal
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- Editor: Peter Kaplan (submitted 2016-05-09). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 2.67 MB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: With piano reduction for rehearsal only.
- (Posted 2011-11-05) CPDL #24888: I_love_my_love_(no_piano).mxl (Sibelius 6)
- Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2011-11-05). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 70 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: I love my love
Composer: Gustav Holst
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1917
Description: Published by J Curwen and Sons Ltd
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Original text and translations
English text
Abroad as I was walking
One evening in the spring
I heard a maid in Bedlam
So sweetly for to sing;
Her chain she rattled with her hands
And thus replied she:
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I love my love because I know
My love loves me
Oh cruel were his parents
Who sent my love to sea
And cruel was the ship
That bore my love from me:
Yet I love his parents since they’re his
Although they’ve ruined me:
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"With straw I'll weave a garland,
I'll weave it very fine;
With roses, lilies, daisies,
I'll mix the eglantine;
And I'll present it to my love when he returns from sea.
For...
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Just as she there sat weeping
Her love he came on land
Then, hearing she was in Bedlam
He ran straight out of hand;
He flew into her snow-white arms
And thus replied he:
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She said: “My love don’t frighten me,
are you my love or no?”
“O yes, my dearest Nancy,
I am your love, also
I am returned to make amends
for all your injury.”
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So now these two are married,
And happy may they be
Like turtle doves together,
In love and unity.
All pretty maids with patience wait
That have got loves at sea;
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