Philip Le Bas Music: Early One Morning

Choral, Instrumental and Chamber Music Compositions and Arrangements

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Philip

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Scoring: TTBB choir a cappella
Date: 2017/revised 2024
"Early One Morning" is a simple arrangement for TTBB barbershop chorus of the well known folk song. Although its subject is sad and full of melancholy, it should not be sung too slowly, but with simplicity and compassion.
Links: pdf - mp3 - midi - mxl - sib - sib 6

Words:
1.
Early one morning, just as the sun was rising,
I heard a young maid sing in the valley below.
Oh, don't deceive me, oh, never leave me.
How could you use a poor maiden so?

2.
Remember the vows that you made to your Mary.
Remember the bow'r where you vowed to be true.
Oh, don't deceive me, oh, never leave me.
How could you use a poor maiden so?

3.
Oh, gay is the garland and fresh are the roses
I've culled from the garden to place upon thy brow.
Oh, don't deceive me, oh, never leave me.
How could you use a poor maiden so?

4.
Thus sang the poor maiden, her sorrows bewailing.
Thus sang the poor maid in the valley below.
Oh, don't deceive me, oh, never leave me.
How could you use a poor maiden so?

Philip Le Bas Music

Choral, Instrumental and Chamber Music Compositions and Arrangements

Early One Morning

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