Sweet bird of eve (John Stafford Smith)

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• (Posted 2021-03-22)  CPDL #63617: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2021-03-22).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 102 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Sweet bird of eve
Composer: John Stafford Smith
Lyricist: John McMillan^{create page}

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Glee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1785
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Original text and translations

English text

Sweet bird of eve, whose love-sick note
I hear across the dale;
Who nightly, to the moon and me,
Dost chant thy melting tale;
Oh, hear a brother mourner's part!
To Delia's window fly;
Tell her I bleed for love of her,
For love of her I die.