It was a Lover (Joseph Cox Bridge)

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• (Posted 2023-09-28)  CPDL #75811:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-28).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 728 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: It was a Lover
Composer: Joseph Cox Bridge
Lyricist: William Shakespeare
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1883
Description: 

Original text and translations

English text

It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonny no,
That o’er the green cornfields did pass
In the spring time,
The only pretty ring time,
When the birds do sing,
Hey ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring,
Ding a ding a ding.

Between the acres of the rye,
With a hey and a ho, and a hey nonny no,
These pretty country folks would lie
In spring time,
The only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing,
Ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring,
Ding a ding a ding.

This carol they began that hour,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonny no,
How that a life was but a flow’r,
In spring time,
The only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing,
Ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring,
Ding a ding a ding.

And therefore take the present time,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonny no,
For love is crowned with the prime,
In spring time,
The only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing,
Ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring,
Ding a ding a ding.

As You Like It
Act 5, Scene 3