The Lover's Ghost (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

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  • (Posted 2023-12-05)  CPDL #77854:     
Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 318 kB   Copyright: Personal
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  • (Posted 2023-05-07)  CPDL #73728:         
Editor: Maia McCormick (submitted 2023-05-07).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 141 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: 5 sharps (C# Dorian). Rehearsal marks, some editorial dynamics.
  • (Posted 2018-08-11)  CPDL #50821:     
Editor: Bradley Parese (submitted 2018-08-11).   Score information: Letter, 6 pages, 115 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: The Lover's Ghost
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lyricist: Traditional

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsongFolksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1913 Stainer & Bell
Description: Five English Folk Songs, No. 4

Note in original publication: The words of this song (which is from the collection of the late H. E. D. Hammond) have been amplified from two broad-side versions.

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Original text and translations

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Well met, well met my own true love;
Long time I have been absent from thee,
I am lately come from the salt sea,
And ‘tis all for the sake, my love, of thee.

I have three ships all on the salt sea,
And one of them has brought me to land,
I've four and twenty mariners on board,
You shall have music at your command.

The ship wherein my love shall sail
Is glorious for to behold,
The sails shall be of shining silk,
The mast shall be of the fine beaten gold.

I might have had a King's daughter,
And fain she would have married me,
But I forsook her crown of gold,
And ‘tis all for the sake, my love of thee.