The Bailiff's Daughter Song IV of 'Love Songs For Springtime'

The Bailiff's Daughter

SATB choral/piano score
LL-VG439-IV-Choir and Piano

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    The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington
    Song IV from ‘Love Songs For Springtime’
    Text: Traditional English

    Music: Paul Halley

     

    There was a youth, and a well-loved youth,
    And he was an esquire’s son;
    He loved the bailiff’s daughter dear
    That lived in Islington.

    But, she was coy, and she would not believe
    That he did love her so,
    No, nor at any time she would
    Any countenance to him show.

    But when his friends did understand
    His fond and foolish mind,
    They sent him up to fair London,
    An apprentice for to bind.

    And when he had been sev’n long years,
    His love he had not seen;
    ‘Many a tear have I shed for her sake,
    When she little thought of me.’

    All the maids of Islington
    Went forth to sport and play;
    All but the bailiff's daughter dear;
    She secretly stole away.

    She put off her gown of grey,
    And put on her puggish attire;
    She is up to fair London gone
    Her true love to require.


    As she went along the road,
    The weather was hot and dry,
    There was she aware of her true-love,
    At length came riding by.

    She stept to him as red as a rose,
    And took him by the bridle ring:
    ‘I pray you, kind sir, give me one penny,
    To ease my weary limb.’

    ‘I prithee, sweetheart, canst thou tell me
    Where that thou wast born?’
    ‘At Islington, kind sir,’ said she,
    ‘Where I’ve had many a scorn.’

    ‘I prithee, sweetheart, canst thou tell me
    Whether thou dost know
    The bailiff’s daughter of Islington?’
    ‘She's dead, sir, long ago.’

    ‘Then will I sell my goodly steed,
    My saddle and my bow;
    I will into some far country,
    Where no man doth me know.’

    ‘Oh stay, Oh stay, thou goodly youth!
    She's alive, she is not dead;
    Here she standeth by thy side,
    And is ready to be thy bride!’


    ‘O farewell grief, and welcome joy,
    Ten thousand times and o’er!
    For now I have seen my own true-love
    That I thought I should see no more.’

     

     

     

     


     

    Catalogue number
    LL-VG439-IV
    Duration
    04'45"
    Difficulty
    Uses / Season / Theme