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Marci Meth & Anna Tilbrook - Little Sir William (Britten)

from The Wild Song by Marci Meth, Anna Tilbrook, Mychael Danna, Sir Simon Russell Beale

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folksong arrangement by Benjamin Britten
Somerset Folk Song (from Volume1, British Isles)

lyrics

Easter day was a holiday
Of all the days in the year,
And all the little schoolfellows
went out to play
But Sir William was not there.

Mamma went to the School Wife House and
knocked at the ring,
Saying, “Little Sir William
If you are there,
Pray let your mother in.”

The School Wife open’d the door
And said “He is not here today.
He is with the little schoolfellows
Out on the green
Playing some pretty play.”
Mamma went to the Boyne water
That is so wide and deep, saying,
“Little Sir William if you are there,
Oh pity your mother’s weep.”

“How can I pity your weep, mother
And I so long in pain?
For the little penknife
Sticks close to my heart
And the School Wife hath me slain.
Go home, go home my mother dear,
And prepare my winding sheet,
For tomorrow morning before
eight o’clock,
You with my body shall meet.

And lay my prayer book at my head,
And my grammar at my feet,
That all the little schoolfellows
as they pass by
May read them for my sake.”

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from The Wild Song, released June 2, 2020

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Marci Meth Paris, France

Marci Meth is a soprano and creative. Her new album The Wild Song pays hommage to Benjamin Britten's relationship with Nature. It reminds us that we are part of something bigger and more beautiful than we can see, and that each of us has a responsibility to leave this world more beautiful than we found it. ... more

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