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==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==
{{Text|English}}
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'''Original text:'''
'''Original text:'''<br>
Which is the properest day to drink? Each is the properest day I think, why should I name but one day? Tell me but yours, I'll mention my day, let us but fix on some day. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Which is the properest day to drink? Each is the properest day I think, why should I name but one day? Tell me but yours, I'll mention my day, let us but fix on some day. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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'''Bowdlerized text:'''<br>
'''Bowdlerized text:'''
Which is the properest day to sing? Each to be sure 'tis a mighty fine thing! why should I name but one day?...
Which is the properest day to sing? Each to be sure 'tis a mighty fine thing! why should I name but one day?...
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Editor: John D. Smith (submitted 2004-02-20).   Score information: A4, 3 pages   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: Scores listed alphabetically by composer, some scores are also available as PDF files.
Editor: Stuart McIntosh (submitted 2001-02-16).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 32 kB   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: Which is the properest day to sing?
Composer: Thomas Arne

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SecularGlee

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published:

Description: This glee started life as "Which is the properest day to drink", scored for male company, i.e. two tenors and a bass. A fourth part was added in the mid-nineteenth century , making the glee "equally suitable for ladies and gentleman", but still retaining the more robust words. It is not known when the bowdlerization was effected.

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

Original text:
Which is the properest day to drink? Each is the properest day I think, why should I name but one day? Tell me but yours, I'll mention my day, let us but fix on some day. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
 

Bowdlerized text: Which is the properest day to sing? Each to be sure 'tis a mighty fine thing! why should I name but one day?... }}