Off to the cruise (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• (Posted 2024-03-08)  CPDL #79447:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-03-08).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 514 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Off to the cruise
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Lyricist: John George Watts
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1913 Stainer & Bell
    2nd published: 1915 Silver, Burdett and Company
Description: (THE COAST OF CORNWALL)

Original text and translations

English text

The moon is climbing up the night:
Yeo, heave ho! and yeo, heave ho!
The little stars are shining bright,
While favouring winds to sea invite,
And much may be won e’er morning light;
So cheerily, yeo, heave ho!

A shoal of fish is off our shore:
Yeo, heave ho! and yeo, heave ho!
Then spread the sail, and ply the oar;
They come to fill our empty store,
To glad the rich, and help the poor;
So cheerily, yeo, heave ho!

What though with danger sometimes rife?
Yeo, heave ho! and yeo, heave ho!
The fisherman’s is a merry life:
A well-rigged craft, a loving wife,
And he’ll snap his thumbs at care and strife;
So cheerily, yeo, heave ho!


[Stanford omits this poem’s last verse]

Then good night, Jane and baby Bill,
Yeo, heave ho! and yeo, heave ho!
For you my darlings, with a will,
Our hands shall toil, our nets shall fill;
So cheerily, yeo, heave ho!