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Marci Meth & Anna Tilbrook - The brisk young widow (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
(from Volume 5, British Isles)

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In Chester town there liv’d
A brisk young widow.
For beauty and fine clothes
None could excel her.
She was proper, stout and tall,
Her fingers long and small,
She’s a comely dame withall,
She’s a brisk young widow.

A lover soon there came,
A brisk young farmer,
With his hat turn’d up all round,
Seeking to gain her.
“My dear, for love of you
This wide world I’d go through
If you will but prove true
You shall wed a farmer.”

Says she: “I’m not for you
Nor no such fellow.
I’m for a lively lad
With lands and riches.
‘Tis not your hogs and yowes
Can maintain furbelows,
My silk and satin clothes
Are all my glory”.

“O madam, don’t be coy
For all your glory,
For fear of another day
And another story.
If the world on you should frown
Your top-knot must come down
To a Lindsey-woolsey gown.
Where is then your glory?”

At last there came that way
A sooty collier,
With his hat bent down all round,
And soon he did gain her:
Whereat the farmer swore,
“The widow’s ‘mazed, I’m sure.
I’ll never court no more
A brisk young widow!”

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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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