Just as the tide was flowing - Vaughan Williams (arr.), John Rutter, Cambridge Singers
‘Just as the tide was flowing' from the album 'The Sprig of Thyme' by John Rutter.
22. Just as the tide was flowing
(Five English Folk Songs)
Arranger Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
One morning in the month of May,
Down by some rolling river,
A jolly sailor, I did stray
When I beheld my lover.
She carelessly along did stray,
A-picking of the daisies gay;
And sweetly sang her roundelay,
Just as the tide was flowing.
O! her dress it was so white as milk,
And jewels did adorn her.
Her shoes were made of crimson silk
Just like some lady of honour.
Her cheeks were red, her eyes were brown,
Her hair in ringlets hanging down;
She’d a lovely brow without a frown
Just as the tide was flowing.
I made a bow and said ‘Fair maid,
How came you here so early?
My heart by you it is betray’d
For I do love you dearly.
I am a sailor come from sea
If you will accept of my company
To walk and view the fishes play’
Just as the tide was flowing.
No more we said, but on our way
We gang’d along together;
The small birds sang, and the lambs did play,
And pleasant was the weather.
When we were weary we did sit down,
Beneath a tree with branches round;
For my true love at last I’d found,
Just as the tide was flowing.
The Sprig of Thyme
The Sprig of Thyme offers a selection of traditional songs of the British Isles, drawing together long-standing favourites as Willow Song and The Miller of Dee with lesser known gems as O Can Ye Sew Cushions and The Sprig of Thyme. Many new settings for choir and small instrumental group have been created by John Rutter especially for this album. Rutter’s suite of eleven traditional songs, The Sprig of Thyme (all of which can be heard on this album) is published by Oxford University Press.
‘This is a lovely disc; one to head my list of Christmas presents for musical friends…’ Gramophone
“This superb collection of traditional English songs, arranged by R. Vaughan Williams and John Rutter, is drawn from nursery rhymes, scout camps, and hymns from High Church assemblies. Sung in the peerless tones of The Cambridge Singers, these humble songs echo the gentility and cultural nationalism of postwar England. Included are bold drinking songs, tender lullabies, and love songs of fragile beauty. They bring delight and pleasure from a vanished age.” AllMusic
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 1983) 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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