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Thread #67094 Message #4196254
Posted By: Joe Offer
27-Jan-24 - 03:36 PM
Thread Name: Woolen & Linen/Hark As The Bee Hunts For Treasure
Subject: Version: Tis I can weave woollen and linen
Here's a performance of the song by Danny Priestley:
'TIS I CAN WEAVE WOOLLEN AND LINEN (Alfred Perceval Graves)
'Tis I can weave woollen and linen, The finest folk wear on their backs; So, girls, come give over your spinnin', And wind off your wool and your flax!
Five year at my woollen and linen I've woven from mornin' to night, With a heart that beat heavy beginnin', But is leapin' for ever more light.
For with guineas full up is the stockin', Sewed safe in the tick of my bed, And 'tis soon that I'll rest without rockin', Since at Shrove with my Willy I'll wed.
by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "'Tis I can weave woollen and linen", published [1882?] [voice and piano], from the collection Songs of Old Ireland. A Collection of Fifty Irish Melodies Unknown in England, no. 37, arrangement ; London, Boosey & Co. ; dedicated to Johannes Brahms, August 1882 [ text verified 1 time]
Ithis is almost the same as the version posted by Jim Dixon above (click)