‘O waly, waly'
English Traditional Song (Somerset) - from ‘Five Traditional Songs’
From the album 'The Sprig of Thyme'

Arranger John Rutter
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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From 'Five Traditional Songs', arranged for unaccompanied mixed voices by John Rutter

LYRICS:
The water is wide, I cannot get o’er,
And neither have I wings to fly;
Give me a boat that will carry two,
And both shall row, my love and I.

O down in the meadows the other day
A-gath’ring flow’rs both fine and gay,
A-gath’ring flow’rs both red and blue,
I little thought what love can do.

I leaned my back up against some oak
Thinking that he was a trusty tree;
But first he bended and then he broke;
And so did my false love to me.

A ship there is and she sails the sea,
She’s loaded deep as deep can be,
But not so deep as the love I’m in:
I know not if I sink or swim.

O love is handsome and love is fine,
And love’s a jewel while it is new,
But when it is old it groweth cold,
And fades away like morning dew.

The Sprig of Thyme
The Sprig of Thyme offers a selection of traditional songs of the British Isles, drawing together long-standing favourites as Willow Song and The Miller of Dee with lesser known gems as O Can Ye Sew Cushions and The Sprig of Thyme. Many new settings for choir and small instrumental group have been created by John Rutter especially for this album. Rutter’s suite of eleven traditional songs, The Sprig of Thyme (all of which can be heard on this album) is published by Oxford University Press.

‘This is a lovely disc; one to head my list of Christmas presents for musical friends…’ Gramophone

“This superb collection of traditional English songs, arranged by R. Vaughan Williams and John Rutter, is drawn from nursery rhymes, scout camps, and hymns from High Church assemblies. Sung in the peerless tones of The Cambridge Singers, these humble songs echo the gentility and cultural nationalism of postwar England. Included are bold drinking songs, tender lullabies, and love songs of fragile beauty. They bring delight and pleasure from a vanished age.” AllMusic

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.


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