Who’ll buy? (Harvey Worthington Loomis)

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Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-14).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 445 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Who’ll buy?
Composer: Harvey Worthington Loomis
Lyricist: Harvey Worthington Loomis
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1910 American Book Company
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Original text and translations

English text

Red roses, roses white,
Born for a maid’s delight,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?
Frail blossoms, flowrets rare,
Wooed by the sunny air,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?
Eglantine, like coral dyed,
Jacqueminot in blushing pride,
Hedge rose,
Moss rose,
Sweetest wares I cry.
Red roses, roses white,
Gone ere the morrow’s night,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?

Pink roses, roses gold,
Scarce yet a brief hour old,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?
Garlands of summer time,
Sung in the poet’s rhyme,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?
Secrets they would fain impart
Dwell within each rosebud’s heart,
Wild rose,
Blush rose,
Blooms to glad the eye.
Pink roses, roses gold,
Come while their buds unfold,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?

White roses, roses red,
Rich perfume ever shed,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?
Each flow’r a bud yest’re’en,
Now fit to deck a queen,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?
Nestling in the petal’s curl
Like a teardrop gleams a pearl,
June rose,
Bride rose,
Faint as lover’s sigh.
White roses, roses red,
Haste, ere their hour be fled,
Who’ll buy, who’ll buy?