The Jolly Waggoner (Jeremy Rawson)
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- (Posted 2024-12-10) CPDL #83058:
- Editor: Jeremy Rawson (submitted 2024-12-10). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 312 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Jolly Waggoner
Composer: Jeremy Rawson
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2024
Description: Arrangement of the traditional English Folk Song
Original text and translations
English text
When first I went a-waggoning, a-waggoning did go,
I broke my parents' hearts with sorrow, grief and woe,
For many were the hardships that we had to undergo,
Singing whoa, my lads, drive on, my lads, drive, my lads, drive on,
For there's none can drive a waggon when the horses will not go.
On a cold and frosty morning I was wet through to my skin,
And there we had to wander till we reached to yonder inn,
There we sat a-talking to the landlord and his wife,
Singing...
O the summertime is coming what peasures I shall see,
The blackbird and the throstle sing in every green-wood tree,
And every lass shall have a lad and sit her on his knee,
Singing...