The Lover's Ghost (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
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- Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-12-05). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 318 kB Copyright: Personal
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- 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.
- 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: Secular, Partsong, Folksong
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
English text
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.