Mill song (George J. Webb)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-26). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 618 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Mill song
Composer: George J. Webb
Lyricist: Thomas Westwood
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1850 Mason & Law
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Original text and translations
English text
Merrily the mill-sail
Turneth round and round,
With a breezy motion
And a busy sound.
Merrily the miller
Standeth at the door,
Humming pleasant ditties
From his ancient store.
Merrily, oh merrily, all the summer’s day,
Hums that burly miller, while the mill-sails play.
At the open lattice,
In the homestead near,
Sits the miller’s good wife,
With face of blythesome cheer;
And round about the gateway
A little sturdy throng
Of rosy knaves are sporting,
With laughter loud and long;
And merrily, right merrily, at close of summer’s day,
Aye laughs the miller’s children the while the mill-sails play.
Good luck befall thee, miller,
With thy frank and hearty smile;
Good luck befall thy dear ones all,
That know nor grief nor guile.
When worldly cares beset us,
And worldly hopes decline,
’Tis well, I wot, to linger
By simple hearths like thine,
And merrily, still merrily, to pass the live-long day,
’Midst happier thoughts and better hopes, the while the mill-sails play.