Laughing-song (Frank Valentine Van der Stucken)

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• (Posted 2023-12-14)  CPDL #78204:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 411 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Laughing-song
Composer: Frank Valentine Van der Stucken
Lyricist: William Blake
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1908 G. Schirmer
Description: Three Choruses for Mixed Choir, Op. 37, No. 1

(Bourrée)

Original text and translations

English text

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;

When the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing ‘Ha, Ha, He!’

When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread,
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of ‘Ha, Ha, He!’