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Marci Meth & Anna Tilbrook - Sweet Polly Oliver (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
Old English Tune (from Volume 3, British Isles)

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As sweet Polly Oliver lay musing in bed,
A sudden strange fancy came into her head.
“Nor father nor mother shall make me false prove,
I’ll list as a soldier and follow my love.”

So early next morning she softly arose,
And dressed herself up in her dead brother’s
clothes.

She cut her hair close, and she stained her face brown,
And went for a soldier to fair London Town.

Then up spoke the sergeant one day at his drill.
“Now who’s good for nursing?
A captain, he’s ill.”
“I’m ready,” said Polly
To nurse him she’s gone,
And finds it’s her true love all wasted and wan.
The first week the doctor kept shaking his head,
“No nursing, young fellow, can save him,”
he said.

But when Polly Oliver had nursed him back to life
He cried, “You have cherished him as if you were his wife.”

O then Polly Oliver, she burst into tears
And told the good doctor her hopes and her fears
And very shortly after, for better of for worse,
The captain took joyfully his pretty soldier nurse.

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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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