Come o’er the sea (Michael William Balfe)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Pdf
	Mp3
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2024-01-18)  CPDL #78800:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-01-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 439 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Come o’er the sea
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: Michael William Balfe
Lyricist: Thomas Moore
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1859 J. Alfred Novello
Description: AIR: CUISHLIH MA CHREE

Original text and translations

English text

Come o’er the sea,
Maiden with me,
  Mine through sunshine, storm, and snows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
  Burns the same, where’er it goes.
Let fate frown on, so we love and part not;
‘Tis life where thou art, ‘tis death were thou are not.
Then come o’er the sea,
Maiden with me,
  Come wherever the wild wind blows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
  Burns the same, where’er it goes.

Was not the sea
Made for the Free,
  Land for courts and chains alone?
Here we are slaves,
But, on the waves,
  Love and Liberty’s all our own.
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us —
Then come o’er the sea,
Maiden with me,
  Come wherever the wild wind blows;
Seasons may roll,
But the true soul
  Burns the same, where’er it goes.