The Jolly Waggoner (Percy Jackman)

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• (Posted 2023-11-02)  CPDL #76875:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-02).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 558 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Jolly Waggoner
Composer: Percy Jackman
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1896 J. Curwen & Sons
Description: English Folk Song

Original text and translations

English text

When first I went a-waggoning,
A-waggoning did go,
I filled my parents’ tender hearts
With sorrow, care, and woe;
And many are the hardships
That I have since gone through.

Sing woa! my lads, sing woa!
Drive on, my lads, I-ho!
Who would not lead the stirring life
The jolly waggoners do?

Upon a cold and stormy night,
I’m wetted to the skin;
I will bear it with contented heart,
Nor grumbling do begin;
Though wind and weather fiercely beat,
I go through thick and thin.

Now summer is a-coming on,
What pleasure we shall see!
The merry flutch is twittering
On ev’ry green-wood tree;
The blackbirds and the thrushes too
Are whistling merrilie.

Now Michaelmas is coming on,
We’ll pleasure also find,
When golden leaves do fly, my boys,
Like chaff before the wind;
And every lad shall take his lass,
So loving and so kind.