I am ‘talking in my sleep’ (George J. Webb)

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• (Posted 2024-02-22)  CPDL #79237:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2024-02-22).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 445 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: I am ‘talking in my sleep’
Composer: George J. Webb
Lyricist: Frances Sargent Osgood
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1850 Mason & Law
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Original text and translations

English text

I have something sweet to tell you,
    But the secret you must keep;
And remember, if it isn’t right,
    I’m “talking in my sleep.”

For I know I am but dreaming,
    When I think your love is mine;
And I know they are but seeming,
    All the hopes that round me shine.

So remember, when I tell you
    What I cannot longer keep,
We are none of us responsible
    For what we say in sleep.

My pretty secret’s coming!
    O, listen with your heart;
And you shall hear it humming,
    So close ’twill make you start.

O, shut your eyes so earnest,
    Or mine will wildly weep’
I love you! I adore you! but—
    “I’m talking in my sleep!”