I love my love (Gustav Holst)
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- CPDL #24888: Sibelius 6
- Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2011-11-05). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 70 kB Copyright: CPDL
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- (Posted 2016-05-09) CPDL #39617: LilyPond
- 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.
General Information
Title: I love my love
Composer: Gustav Holst
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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:
Chorus
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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