Vermont Songs: Baillif's Daughter (Kenneth Langer)

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• (Posted 2025-05-22)  CPDL #85024:         

Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-22).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 109 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Vermont Songs: Baillif's Daughter
Composer: Kenneth Langer
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Chorale

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 2025
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Original text and translations

English text

There was a youth and a well beloved youth and he was the mayor's son. He loved the Bailiff's daughter dear that lived in Burlington. But she was coy and would not believe that he did love her so, nor would she at anytime any countenance to him show.

And when his friends did understand his pride they sent him down to Bennington to bind. Seven long years went rolling by and ne'er did his true love see. Many a tear have I shed when little she thought of me.

One day she went along the road, the weather being hot and dry, she sat down on a shady bank. riding by. She sprang up with color so bright seized his rein, "One penny, one penny," "'Twould ease much pain." Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Oh, stay, oh, stay, you goodly youth, she's standing by your side. She is not dead but alive and ready "Depart sorrow and welcome joy, many times for now I have my own true love whom I thought I would see no more.

One day she went along the road, the weather being hot and dry, she sat down on a shady bank. Her true love came riding by. She sprang up with color so bright and seized his bridle rein, "One penny, one penny," she said "'Twould ease me of much pain."

Oh, stay, oh, stay, you goodly youth, she's standing by your side. She is not dead but alive and well and ready to be your bride. "Depart sorrow and welcome joy, many thousand times and more, for now I have my own true love whom I thought I would see no more." But she was coy and would not believe that he did love her so, Seven long years went rolling by and ne'er did his true love see. One day she went along the road, the weather being hot and dry, she sat down on a shady bank. Her true love came riding by.

Before I give you a penny, sweetheart, pray tell me whether you know the bailiff's daughter of Burlington." "She's dead, sir, long ago." "If she be dead, then take my horse, my saddle and bridle also, and I will go to some far land where no one me shall know.

Oh, stay, oh, stay, you goodly youth, she's standing by your side. She is not dead but alive and well and ready to be your bride. Depart sorrow and welcome joy, many thousand times and more, for now I have my own true love whom I thought I would see no more.