In praise of white wine (John Reading)
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- Editor: Laura Conrad (submitted 2002-08-12). Score information: Letter, 24 pages, 280 kB Copyright: GnuGPL
- Edition notes: From a collection of Drinking songs
General Information
Title: In Praise of White Wine
Composer: John Reading
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: TTB
Genre: Secular, Canon
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
Let crystal White Wine cheer the drowsy mind;
‘Tis Claret only leaves a stain behind;
In the use of which we do Bacchus disgrace;
We make the god mortal by painting his face;
He’s not like a god, whose image is red;
O’er night his cheeks blush, in the morning they’re dead.