The Roadside fire (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
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- Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-06-08). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 322 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central. File Size: MIDI: 12 KB.
General Information
Title: The Roadside Fire
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Baritone Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1905
Description: "The Roadside Fire" is Number 3 in a set of 9 songs in the set of nine songs called "Songs of Travel".
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Original text and translations
English text
- I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
- Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night,
- I will make a palace fit for you and me
- Of green days in forests, and blue days at sea.
- I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,
- Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom;
- And you shall wash your linen and keep your body white
- In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.
- And this shall be for music when no one else is near,
- The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
- That only I remember, that only you admire,
- Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.