O waly, waly - John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
'O waly, waly'
From the album ‘A Double Celebration’
Composer John Rutter
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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O waly, waly
This beautiful and much-loved Somerset folk-song is No. 2 of Five Traditional Songs arranged for mixed choir by John Rutter. The enduring appeal of the song lies in the beauty of its melody, coupled to a text on a universal theme expressed in touchingly simple metaphoric and poetic language.
LYRICS:
The water is wide, I cannot get o’er,
And neither have I wings to fly;
Give me a boat that will carry two,
And both shall row, my love and I.
O down in the meadows the other day
A-gath’ring flow’rs both fine and gay,
A-gath’ring flow’rs both red and blue,
I little thought what love can do.
I leaned my back up against some oak
Thinking that he was a trusty tree;
But first he bended and then he broke;
And so did my false love to me.
A ship there is and she sails the sea,
She’s loaded deep as deep can be,
But not so deep as the love I’m in:
I know not if I sink or swim.
O love is handsome and love is fine,
And love’s a jewel while it is new,
But when it is old it groweth cold,
And fades away like morning dew.
(Somerset folk-song, arranged by John Rutter)
A Double Celebration
A 55 track celebration to mark 30 years of the Cambridge Singers and the 70th birthday of John Rutter.
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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