Had I a golden pound to spend (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-12-24)  CPDL #87871:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-12-24).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 400 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Had I a golden pound to spend
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Francis Ledwidge
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB + Soloist
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A settings for SATB and soloist (mezzo-soprano or soprano) of a poem written by Francis Ledwidge in February 1917, and subtitled ‘From the Irish.’

Original text and translations

English text

Had I a golden pound to spend,
My love should mend and sew no more.
And I would buy her a little quern,
Easy to turn on the kitchen floor.

And for her windows curtains white,
With birds in flight and flowers in bloom,
To face with pride the road to town,
And mellow down her sunlit room.

And with the silver change we'd prove
The truth of Love to life's own end,
With hearts the years could but embolden,
Had I a golden pound to spend.