Lyr Req: What Would You Do Love? (Samuel Lover)

Subject: What Would You Do Love?
From:
Date: 19 Sep 00 - 07:46 AM

Looking for the lyrics for the song "What Would You Do Love?" I believe its Irish. The first verse is as follows: And what would you do love When I'll be going? With white sails flowing To the seas beyond. And what would you do love When waves divide us? And friends may chide us for being apart?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What Would You Do Love?
From: Karolina
Date: 19 Sep 00 - 10:02 AM

Please have a look at this page (click). Hope that's the one you're looking for.

Karolina

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What Would You Do Love?
From: GUEST,Doc
Date: 20 Sep 00 - 07:41 AM

That's the one! Thanks so much! Doc

Subject: Lyr Add: WHAT WILL YOU DO, LOVE? (Samuel Lover)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Sep 02 - 07:01 AM

Copied from http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/tne/song.htm
(That page also has a .gif image of the sheet music.)

WHAT WILL YOU DO, LOVE?
(Samuel Lover)

What will you do, love, when I am going,
With white sails flowing
The seas beyond?
What will you do, love, when waves divide us,
And friends may chide us
for being fond?

Tho waves divide us, and friends be chiding,
In faith abiding,
I'll still be true,
And I'll pray for thee on the stormy ocean,
In deep devotion,
That's what I'll do.

What would you do, love, if distant tidings,
Thy fond confidings
Should undermine,
And I, abiding 'neath sultry skies,
Should think other eyes
Were as bright as thine?

Oh! Name it not, tho' guilt and shame
Were on thy name
I'd still be true!
But that heart of thine, should another share it,
I could not bear it,
What would I do?

What would you do, love, when home returning,
With hopes high burning,
With wealth for you,
If my bark that bounded o'er foreign foam,
Should be lost near home,
Ah! What would you do?

So thou wert spared, I'd bless the morrow,
In want and sorrow,
That left me you!
And I'd welcome thee from the wasting billow,
This heart thy pillow,
That's what I'd do.

[From "Naval Songs," edited by Stephen Bleecker (New York: W. A. Pond, 1905, reprint Portland, Maine: Longwood Press, 1976), p. 43.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What Would You Do Love?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 03 Sep 02 - 07:30 AM

Sheet music is at the Levy Collection (CLICK HERE.

Title: Selected Vocal Gems. 8. What Will You Do Love?
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Written and Composed by S. Lover, Esq.
Publication: Cincinnati: C.Y. Funda, 72 West Fourth St., n.d..
Form of Composition: strophic
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: What will you do love when I am going, with white sail flowing, the seas beyond
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Stackpole N.Y.
Plate Number: 112-4
Subject: Sailors
Subject: Absences
Subject: Courtship
Subject: Love
Subject: Homecomings
Subject: Shipwrecks
Call No.: Box: 176 Item: 126

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What Would You Do Love?
From: belfast
Date: 03 Sep 02 - 10:47 AM

There is great version of this song recorded by Delia Murphy and Richard Hayward. It was a 78, but it has been released on a CD compilation of stuff recorded in Ireland in the '50s. I'm afraid I can't recall the company or even the title - something dreadful like "Irish Melodic Gems". It also has Delia Murphy singing "The Bold Fenian Men" (the best version ever) and MacCormack singing "The Kerry Dances".

And last year I heard Paricia Flynn and Mick Quinn singing it at the traditional singing weekend in Mullagbawn, Co Armagh.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What Would You Do Love?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 03 Sep 02 - 12:30 PM

Geo. W. Morgan set the same words to a different melody ("What will you do love?"; "music by Geo. W. Morgan" but the lyricist's name is not given). The sheet music (New York: Grand Conservatory Pub. Co., 1885) is at Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: What Would You Do Love?
From: masato sakurai
Date: 03 Sep 02 - 12:55 PM

"What Will You Do, Love?" (Samuel Lover) as a four-part song is HERE [gif file], from The Book of a Thousand Songs, edited by Albert E. Wier (Carl Fischer, 1918).