Ha ha! This world doth pass - Thomas Weelkes, John Rutter, Members of the Cambridge Singers
15. 'Ha ha! This world doth pass'
From the album ‘Flora gave me fairest flowers’
Composer Thomas Weelkes
Conductor John Rutter
Choir Members of the Cambridge Singers
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Ha ha! This world doth pass
(Thomas Weelkes, Ayeres Or Phantasticke Spirites for three voices, 1608)
LYRICS:
Ha ha! ha ha! This world doth pass
Most merrily I'll be sworn,
For many an honest Indian ass
Goes for a unicorn.
Fara diddle dyno,
This is idle fyno.
Tie hie! tie hie! O sweet delight!
He tickles this age that can
Call Tullia’s ape a marmasyte
And Leda’s goose a swan.
Fara diddle dyno,
This is idle fyno.
So, so! so so! Fine English days!
For false play is no reproach,
For he that doth the coachman praise
may safely use the coach.
Fara diddle dyno,
This is idle fyno.
Flora gave me fairest flowers
John Rutter directs members of the Cambridge Singers in a programme of English Madrigals from a number of composers including Weelkes, Wilbye, Morley and Byrd.
John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1981) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.
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