Away to the woodlands (John Ebenezer West)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-18). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 703 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Away to the woodlands
Composer: John Ebenezer West
Lyricist: Thomas Chatterton
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1903 Novello and Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Away to the woodlands, away!
The shepherds are forming a ring,
To dance to the honour of May,
And welcome the pleasures of Spring.
And shepherdess labours a grace,
And shines in her Sunday’s array,
And bears in the bloom of her face
The charms and the beauties of May.
Away to the woodlands, away!
And join with the amorous train:
’Tis treason to labour today,
Now Bacchus and Cupid must reign.
With garlands of primroses made,
And crowned with the sweet blooming spray,
Through woodland, and meadow, and shade,
We’ll dance to the honour of May.