Waken, lords and ladies gay (Louis A. Coerne)

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• (Posted 2023-10-04)  CPDL #76049:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-04).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 514 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Waken, lords and ladies gay
Composer: Louis A. Coerne
Lyricist: Walter Scott
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1920 Oliver Ditson Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Waken, lords and ladies gay,
On the mountain dawns the day;
All the jolly chase is here
With hawk and horse and hunting-spear,
Hounds are in their couples yelling,
Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,
Merrily, merrily mingle they—
“Waken, lords and ladies gay.”

Waken, lords and ladies gay,
To the greenwood haste away;
We can show you where he lies,
Fleet of foot and tall of size;
We can show the marks he made
When ’gainst the oak his antlers fray’d;
You shall see him brought to bay—
“Waken, lords and ladies gay.”

Louder, louder chant the lay,
Waken, lords and ladies gay!
Tell them youth and mirth and glee
Run a course as well as we;
Time, stern huntsman! who can balk,
Staunch as hound and fleet as hawk:
Think of this, and rise with day,
Gentle lords and ladies gay!