Come down in the meadow (Solomon W. Straub)

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• (Posted 2023-12-12)  CPDL #78118:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-12).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 468 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Come down in the meadow
Composer: Solomon W. Straub
Lyricist: Eben Eugene Rexford
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1898 S. W. Straub & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Come down in the meadow this morning in Summer,
And gather sweet blossoms abloom by the way,
And hear in the woodlands the brown partridge drummer
Beat up his brown soldiers to drill for the day.

O sing in the morning a song that I love,
A song that is sweet as the lark’s above.

The air is astir with a jubilant chorus,
The fields and the woodlands are bright as a smile;
The sky bends so tenderly, lovingly o’er us,
With clouds o’er the hills like gray soldiers in file.

How happy the winds are above and about us!
They laugh out like children in innocent glee;
Let the world and its sorrows go onward without us,
Oh, Summer, the Summer for you and for me.