Jack and Joan - Wood, Charles

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⌛ Period → Romantic ◈ Genre → Art songs

♯ Key C major

⁄ Time Signature 2/2

♬ Voicing → Unison

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range C1 – E5

¶ Language → English

Measures 43

Texture mixed texture

Parts 7

Instruments Piano

Pages 3

CPDL # 57855

Editor Andrew Sims

Posted 2020-04-05

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Voice

C4 – E5

Piano

C1 – E4

¶Lyrics / Text

Jack and Joan they think no ill, But loving live, and merry still; Do their week-days' work, and pray Devoutly on the holy day: Skip and trip it on the green, And help to choose the Summer Queen; Lash out, at a country feast, Their silver penny with the best. Well can they judge of nappy ale, And tell at large a winter tale; Climb up to the apple loft, And turn the crabs till they be soft. Tib is all the father's joy, And little Tom the mother's boy. All their pleasure is content; And care, to pay their yearly rent. Joan can call by name her cows, And deck her window with green boughs; She can wreaths and nosegays make, And trim with plums a bridal cake. Jack knows what brings gain or loss; And his long flail can stoutly toss: Makes the hedge, which others break; And ever thinks what he doth speak. Now, you courtly dames and knights, That study only strange delights; Though you scorn the homespun grey, And revel in your rich array; Though your tongues dissemble deep, And can your heads from danger keep; Yet, for all your pomp and train, Securer lives the silly swain.