The waterside (Edgar Bainton)

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• (Posted 2023-09-18)  CPDL #75486:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 450 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The waterside
Composer: Edgar Bainton
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1910 Novello and Co.
Description: Scottish folk song, text In Scots

Original text and translations

English text

As I gaed down the water-side,
There I met my shepherd lad;
He row’d me sweetly in his plaid,
An’ he ca’d me his dearie.

“Will ye gang down the water-side,
And see the waves sae sweetly glide
Beneath the hazels spreading wide?
The moon it shines fu’ clearly.”

While waters wimple to the sea,
While day blinks in the lift sae hie,
Till claycauld death shall blin’ my e’e,
Ye sall be my dearie.

Traditional Scottish