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Marci Meth & Anna Tilbrook - O Waly, Waly (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 (Cecil Sharp) (from Volume 3, British Isles)

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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 flowers both fine and gay,
A gath’ring flowers 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.

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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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