Mount your baggage (Joseph Haydn)

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• (Posted 2020-03-01)  CPDL #57309: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2020-03-01).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Mount your baggage
Composer: Joseph Haydn
Lyricist: Anon

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Solo high
Genre: Secular, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard, violin

First published: 1792 in A selection of Original Scots Songs
Description: Hob. XXXIa.42 Fakesong from the Celtic tweelight.

Original text and translations

English text

O mount and go,
Mount and make you ready,
O mount and go
And be a captain's lady.

When the drums do beat
And the cannons rattle,
Thou shalt sit in state
And see thy love in battle.
O mount and go,
Mount and make you ready,
O mount and go
And be a captain's lady.

When the vanquished foe
Sues for peace and quiet,
To the shades we'll go
And in love enjoy it.
O mount and go,
Mount and make you ready,
O mount and go
And be a captain's lady.