Oh sing again that simple song (George M. Garrett)

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• (Posted 2023-10-18)  CPDL #76441:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 400 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Oh sing again that simple song
Composer: George M. Garrett
Lyricist: George du Maurier
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1869 Novello, Ewer, and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

Oh! sing again that simple song
    We used to love so long ago;
Ere Fortune’s spite, the cold world’s wrong,
    Had taught us all that now we know.
Ay, breathe once more that touching strain,
    So sweet to spirits tempest-tost;
For still to me its sad refrain
    Seems sweetest when it pains me most.

Though Fortune frown, and friends look cold,
    And lowier hopes and aims are ours;
And visions bright as those of old
    No more may cheer our lonely hours;
Yet, let us ‘drive dull care away,’
    Unheeding Fortune’s sharpest slings,°
Today, today, at least, be gay,
    Whate’er tomorrow brings!

° ‘The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.’ —SHAKESPEARE

As printed in: The London Society: An illustrated Magazine of light and amusing literature for the hours of relaxation. Volume II, 1862.