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Peter Warlock - The Birds

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When Jesus Christ was four years old
The angels brought Him toys of gold
Which no man ever had bought or sold

And yet with these He would not play
He made Him small fowl out of clay
And blessed them till they flew away

Tu creasti, Domine
Jesus Christ, Thou child so wise
Bless mine hands and fill mine eyes

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Peter Warlock - And wilt thou leave me thus?
And wilt thou leave me thus! Say nay, say nay, for shame! -- To save thee from the blame Of all my grief and grame And wilt thou leave me thus? Say nay! say nay!

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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never Then sigh not so But let them go And be you

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O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear, your true love's coming That can sing both high and low Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in

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About the field they piped right So merrily the shepherds began to blow Adown from heaven that is so high Tyrley, tyrlow, tyrley, terlow, tyrley, tyrlow Of angels there came

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As I sat under the sycamore tree A sycamore tree, a sycamore tree I looked me out upon the sea A Christmas day in the morning I saw three ships a-sailing there

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Rutterkin is come unto our town In a cloak without coat or gown Save ragged hood to cover his crown Like a Rutterkin Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin! Rutterkin can speak

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I mun be married a Sunday Whosoever shall come that way I mun be married a Sunday Roister Doister is my name A lusty brute I am the same I mun be married a Sunday

Peter Warlock - Spring
Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we,

Peter Warlock - Lusty Juventus
In an arbour green asleep whereas I lay The birds sang sweet in the middes of the day: I dreamed fast of mirth and play; In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure Methought

Peter Warlock

The British music critic Philip Heseltine (1894-1930) used the pseudonym of “Peter Warlock” for all his published efforts as a composer. After a failed career as a student, Heseltine fell into music criticism and became known as a combative critic under his own name. He also gained a reputation as an exhibitionist and student of Celtic culture and occult practices. The name of Peter Warlock came about as a result of the latter.

Most of Warlock’s music is for the human voice, either solo or choral, although his orchestral Capriol Suite is one of his most popular works. Heseltine died as a result of asphyxiation from coal gas, a probable suicide.