The fisher boy (Howard Kingsbury)

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•  Posted on 2024-04-29(Posted 2024-04-29)  CPDL #80444:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-04-29).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 370 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The fisher boy
Composer: Howard Kingsbury
Lyricist: Eliza Cook
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1874 Taintor Brothers
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

Merrily oh! merrily oh!
The nets are spread out to the sun:
Merrily oh! the Fisher Boy sings,
Right glad that his labour is done.
Happy and gay, with his boat in the bay,
The storm and the danger forgot;
The wealthy and great might repine at their state,
And envy the Fisher Boy’s lot.
Merrily oh! merrily oh!
This is the burden he gives:
“Cheerily oh! though the blast may blow,
The fisher boy jollily lives.”

Merrily oh! merrily oh!
He sleeps till the morning breaks;
Merrily oh! at the seagull’s scream
The Fisher Boy quickly awakes.
Down on the strand he is plying his hand,
His shouting is heard again;
The clouds are dark, but he springs to his bark
With the same light-hearted strain.
Merrily oh! merrily oh!
“Cheerily oh! though the blast may blow,
The fisher boy jollily lives.”