Oh, the sweet contentment (William Horsley)

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• (Posted 2024-03-01)  CPDL #79328:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-01).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 447 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: SATB version. Arranged by Charles Edward Horsley, the composer’s son.

• (Posted 2021-02-08)  CPDL #62755: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-02-08).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 224 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download.

General Information

Title: Oh, the sweet contentment
Composer: William Horsley
Lyricist: Izaak Walton

Number of voices: 5, 4vv   Voicings: ATTTB or SATB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1815
    2nd published: c. 1873 W. P. Dreaper & Sons
Description: Corydon’s Song, from the “Complete Angler”

Original text and translations

English text

Oh, the sweet contentment the countryman doth find,
Heigh trollie lollie loe, heigh, trollie lollie, trollie lollie, lollie loe;
That quiet contemplation possesseth all my mind.
Then care away and wend along with me.

The ploughman, tho' he labour hard, yet on the holiday,
Heigh trollie lollie loe, heigh, trollie lollie, trollie lollie, lollie loe;
No emperor so merrily does pass his time away.
Then care away and wend along with me.

The cuckoo and the nightingale full merrily do sing,
Heigh trollie lollie loe, heigh, trollie lollie, trollie lollie, lollie loe;
And with their pleasant roundelays bid welcome to the spring.
Then care away and wend along with me.