The Farmer's Boy - Vocal
from UBC Masters and Doctoral Compositions by Riley Koenig
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Masters - 2015:
This is the continuation of my previous orchestration assignment, scoring the piece for 4-piece (SATB) choir instead. Performers include: Matt Peters, Katie Miller, and Jessica Taylor. The piece transitions near the end to the original melody in the major mode.
This is the continuation of my previous orchestration assignment, scoring the piece for 4-piece (SATB) choir instead. Performers include: Matt Peters, Katie Miller, and Jessica Taylor. The piece transitions near the end to the original melody in the major mode.
lyrics
The sun went down behind yon hill, across yon dreary moor;
Weary and lame a boy there came up to the farmer's door;
Can you tell me if any there be, that will give me employ,
For to plough and sow, for to reap and mow, and be a farmer's boy?"
"My father's dead and mother's left with her five children small.
And what is worse for my mother still, I'm the oldest of them all;
Though little I am, I fear no work, if you'll give me emply,
For to plugh and sow, for to reap and mow, and be a farmer's boy."
"And if that you won't me employ, one favour I've to ask.
Will you shelter me till the break of day from this cold winter's blast?
At the break of day I'll trudge away, elsewhere to seek employ
For to plough and sow, for to reap and mow, and be a farmer's boy."
The farmer said, "I'll try the lad, no further let him seek,"
"Oh yes! dear father," the daughter said, while tears ran down her cheek;
For them that will work it's hard to want, and wander for employ
For to plough and sow, for to reap and mow, and be a farmer's boy."
At length the boy became a man, the good old famer died;
He left the lad the farm he had, and his daughter to be his bride;
And now the lad a farmer is, and he smiles and thinks with joy,
Of the luucky, lucky day when he came that way, to be a farmer's boy.
Weary and lame a boy there came up to the farmer's door;
Can you tell me if any there be, that will give me employ,
For to plough and sow, for to reap and mow, and be a farmer's boy?"
"My father's dead and mother's left with her five children small.
And what is worse for my mother still, I'm the oldest of them all;
Though little I am, I fear no work, if you'll give me emply,
For to plugh and sow, for to reap and mow, and be a farmer's boy."
"And if that you won't me employ, one favour I've to ask.
Will you shelter me till the break of day from this cold winter's blast?
At the break of day I'll trudge away, elsewhere to seek employ
For to plough and sow, for to reap and mow, and be a farmer's boy."
The farmer said, "I'll try the lad, no further let him seek,"
"Oh yes! dear father," the daughter said, while tears ran down her cheek;
For them that will work it's hard to want, and wander for employ
For to plough and sow, for to reap and mow, and be a farmer's boy."
At length the boy became a man, the good old famer died;
He left the lad the farm he had, and his daughter to be his bride;
And now the lad a farmer is, and he smiles and thinks with joy,
Of the luucky, lucky day when he came that way, to be a farmer's boy.
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from UBC Masters and Doctoral Compositions,
released August 30, 2018
Singers - Matt Peters, Katie Miller, Jessica Taylor
Singers - Matt Peters, Katie Miller, Jessica Taylor
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