Three doughty Knights (Alec Rowley)

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• (Posted 2023-12-04)  CPDL #77840:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-04).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 522 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Three doughty Knights
Composer: Alec Rowley
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1924 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Three doughty knights set forth one day,
(With a hey, derry, derry dow-na.)
Their names were William, James, and John,
(With a hey, derry, derry dow-na.)
They were as brave as brave could be,
Until they met a dragon.
So William went into an inn,
And drained a great big flagon.
Now James, he’d left his lance behind,
(With a hey, derry, derry downa.)
And he turned back that lance to find,
(With a hey, derry, derry downa.)
But John, who was both big and strong,
Did fight the dragon hard and long,
And slew it with a mighty blow,
(For this is the end of the tale,
hey ho, hey ho, hey ho, the end of the tale.)
With a derry dow-na, derry dow-na, dow-na!