My sweet Sweeting (Arthur Somervell)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-11). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 501 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: My sweet Sweeting
Composer: Arthur Somervell
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1896 J. & J. Hopkinson
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Original text and translations
English text
Ah! my sweet sweeting;
My little pretty sweeting,
My sweeting will I love wherever I go;
She is so proper and pure,
So steadfast, stable, and demure,
There is none such, ye may be sure,
As my sweet sweeting.
In all this world, as thinketh me,
Is none so pleasant to my e’e,
That I am glad so oft to see,
As my sweet sweeting.
When I behold my sweeting sweet,
Her face, her hands, her minion feet,
It seems to me there’s nought so sweet
As my sweet sweeting.
Above all others praise must I,
And love my little pigseneye,
For none I find so womanly
As my sweet sweeting.