Come and Go A-Maying (James Calvin Bushey)

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• (Posted 2023-09-28)  CPDL #75844:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 494 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Come and Go A-Maying
Composer: James Calvin Bushey
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1890 The Echo Music Company
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Original text and translations

English text

Come and go a-Maying
O’er the meadow straying,
Where the little birds are singing happily all around.
Straying by the fountain,
O’er the glen and mountain,
While the sparkling dewdrops deck the velvet covered ground.

Let us away,
Happy today,
Voices ringing,
Gladness bringing,
Onward we go,
No sorrow know,
But happy as the bird that warbles all day long.

When the lengthening shadows
Steal across the meadows,
We will gladly seek our pleasant homes to rest once more.
And although we’re weary,
We will not be dreary,
Thinking of the many scenes we never saw before.