The Turtle Dove - Vaughan Williams, Ralph

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""Fare Thee Well" (sometimes known as "The Turtle Dove") is an 18th-century English folk ballad, listed as number 422 in the Roud Folk Song Index. In the song, a lover bids farewell before setting off on a journey, and the lyrics include a dialogue between the lovers."

⌛ Period → 20th Century

◈ Genre / Form Folksongs

♯ Key B- minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SSATB|SSATB + Solo Baritone

◆ Difficulty

Advanced (Grade 5-6)

↕ Range E-2 – G-5

¶ Language → English

Measures 46

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 80958

Editor Holt Skinner

Posted 2024-06-16

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Baritone Solo

D-3 – E-4

Soprano 1

D-4 – G-5

Soprano 2

D-4 – E-5

Alto

B-3 – D-5

Tenor

D-3 – F4

Bass

E-2 – B-3

¶Lyrics / Text

Fare you well my dear I must be gone and leave you for a while If I roam away I'll come back again Though I roam ten thousand miles, my dear Though I roam ten thousand miles So fair though art my bonney lass So deep in love as I But I never will prove false to the bonney lass I love Till the stars fall from the sky my dear Till the stars fall from the sky The sea will never run dry my dear Nor the rocks never melt with the sun But I never will prove false to the bonney lass I love Till all these things be done my dear Till all these things be done O yonder doth sit that little turtle dove He doth sit on yonder high tree A making a moan for the losee of his love As I will do for thee my dear As I will do for thee

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