The Old Song (Alice E. Griffeth)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-23). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 716 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The Old Song
Composer: Alice E. Griffeth
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1881 S. W. Straub & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
Oh, sing again
That dear old strain
My mother sang to me,
When holy rays
Of early days
Gleamed thro’ our threshold tree.
Oh, sing again
That dear old strain
My mother sang to me,
For never more
Beside that door
Will mother sing to me.
The sunset low
In purple glow,
Crept o’er the sanded floor;
The story long
The dear old song,
Beside that oaken door.
But golden gleams
Of hallowed themes
Will linger to the last;
I cherish still
With sacred thrill,
The old song of the past.