Wine in a morning (Henry Purcell)
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- CPDL #3921:
- Editor: Laura Conrad (added 2002-08-12). Score information: Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: From a collection of Drinking songs
General Information
Title: Wine in a morning
Composer: Henry Purcell
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Canons
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
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Original text and translations
English text
- Wine, wine in a morning makes us frollick and gay
- that like eagles we soar in the pride of the day;
- Gouty sots in hte night only find a decay.
- 'Tis the sun ripes the grape and to drinking gives light:
- We imitate him when by noon we're at height;
- They steal wine who take it when he's out of sight.
- Boy, fill all the glasses, fill 'em up now he shines,
- The higher he rises, the more he refines;
- But wine and wit palls as their maker declines.