Let us all go Maying (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-27). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 385 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2019-11-25). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 63 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score.
General Information
Title: Let us all go maying
Composer: Robert Lucas Pearsall
Lyricist: Robert Lucas Pearsall
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
First published: 1864
2nd published: 1877 in Novello's Part-Song Book (2nd series), Vol. 10, no. 303
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Original text and translations
English text
1 Let us all go Maying,
Through the greenwood straying,
R: Fa la la la la la la la,
We chaunt it and play.
Oh, 'tis merry when we're singing
In the month of May.
2 Ye that are for pleasure
Trip with us a measure,
R:
3 Care was sent to spite us,
Music to delight us.
R: