Shall we go dance? (Charles Villiers Stanford)

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• CPDL #27979:  (Sibelius 7)

Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2013-01-06).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Shall we go dance?
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1897

Description: Originally published by Boosey and Hawkes. Partsong is no. 3 from Op. 67

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Original text and translations

English text

Shall we go dance the hay, the hay?
Never pipe could ever play
better shepherd's roundelay,
Fa la la la la la la la!

Shall we go sing the song, the song?
Never love did ever wrong,
fair maids, hold hands all along,
Fa la la la la la la la!

Shall we go learn to woo, to woo,
Never thought came better too,
better deed could ever do.
Fa la la la la la la la!

Shall we go learn to kiss, to kiss?
Never heart could ever miss
comfort where true meaning is.
Fa la la la la la la la!

Thus at base they run,
when the sport was scarce begun;
but I wak'd, and all was done,
Fa la la la la la la la!