My home is in the mountains (William Batchelder Bradbury)

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• (Posted 2023-09-27)  CPDL #75771:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-27).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 676 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: My Home is in the Mountains
Composer: William Batchelder Bradbury
Lyricist: J. E. A. Smith^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1875 Oliver Ditson & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

My home is in the mountains,
But my heart is in the dale,
As summer gushing fountains
From the hillside seek the vale;
The chamois leaps
O’er the icy steeps,
And eaglets sunward soar;
But dawn of day
In the morning gray,
I seek their haunts no more.

My home is in the mountains,
But my heart is in the dale;
Like summer gushing fountains,
From the hill I seek the vale.

My love is in her bower,
In the shadow of that glen,
Where bright the Alpine flower
From the cliffside mocketh men;
At morning’s light,
To their giddy height,
With eager steps I spring;
And dewy bloom
In its first perfume
To the maiden’s bower I bring.

Time flieth like these fountains,
But true love shall never fail,
My home upon the mountain
With the maiden of the vale;
And ev’ry morn Of the sunlight born,
We’ll welcome with a song,
And waning night In the soft moonlight
With merry dance prolong.