The Vagabond (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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Contributor: David Newman (Added 2008-06-08).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 388 kbytes       Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 388 KB, MIDI: 14 KB, Sibelius 4: 22 KB.

General Information

Title: The Vagabond
Composer: Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson

Number of voices: 1v  Voicing:Baritone Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1905

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• Art Song Central resources for this work.

Original text and translations

English text

Give to me the life I love,

Let the lave go by me,

Give the jolly heaven above,

And the byway nigh me.

Bed in the bush with stars to see,

Bread I dip in the river -

There’s the life for a man like me,

There’s the life for ever.

Let the blow fall soon or late,

Let what will be o’er me;

Give the face of earth around,

And the road before me.

Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,

Nor a friend to know me;

All I seek, the heaven above,

And the road below me.

Or let autumn fall on me

Where afield I linger,

Silencing the bird on tree,

Biting the blue finger.

White as meal the frosty field -

Warm the fireside haven -

Not to autumn will I yield,

Not to winter even!

Let the blow fall soon or late,

Let what will be o’er me;

Give the face of earth around,

And the road before me.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,

Nor a friend to know me;

All I ask, the heaven above,

And the road below me.

Lyrics: Robert Louis Stevenson - (1850-1894) - from "Songs of Travel".