Fantasia Lindum: [20:13] a) Prelude and Theme; b) Song: Swifts, Swains, Leafy Lanes; c) Dance: Jig Upon Jig; Theme (lutes and recorder); d) Dance (Galliard): God Must Doubt; e) Song: Lincolnshire Lullaby; f) Dance: Basse Dance; Theme (lute duet); g) Dance: Quatre Dance Pavan; h) Song: Celestial Light (for Lincoln Cathedral); i) Dance: Coranto; Theme (lutes and recorders); j) End.
Swifts, Swains, and Leafy Lanes
Chorus: Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, This country brings them near, As a lover to his lass And a woodsman to his deer. Swifts and swains, leafy lanes, This country brings them near, Resplendent in its finery
Verse 1: Thoughts of field and pasture, enrapture And capture fair memories of my youth. Days of love and laughter, yet laughter, thereafter Allayed to leave but truth
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Verse 2: Scenes of church and priory inspire me And fire me to dwell on times gone by. Hours of merry making when pleasures were for taking How can they all die now
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Middle 8 the pain of my forlorn love has been This countryside of Lincol Green
Verse 3: Evetide warblers trilling, with dulcet tones instilling, Ideas wich weren't denied. Yet brief was your bold passion For one man was not fashion So love is cast aside.
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God Must Doubt
Your beauty is perfection as two notes rhymed in harmony Your faults, I can detect none, for God must doubt there are any
Lincolshire Lullaby
Song of lovebir, speed soon to your window. Oh lady be mine tonight
Verses of sweet words, speak soft by your pillow. To woo you while sun slips from sight
Chorus: Evening descending, day's at an ending The ploughboy lays down his share Lincoln sleeps still, from valley to hill, The silence of night is there.
May gardens of roses, crimsoned fragrance expounding Adorn your dreamfields tonight. And as day closes, waning with twilight surrounding Then let our love's eager flame burn bright
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While woodland's sleeping No-one is peeping Just moonbeams leaping Tonight
Thus falls the darkness, watching the world lie yawning, It turns the day safe tonight. So sleep sound my darling, slumber on till the morning Brings forth her blessed blanket of light.
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Celestial Light
Verse 1 Sparkling dew soaks the dawn grass, Announcing the nightime's decay Morning larks on the lawns massed Signify a new born day Welcomed rays that the sun casts. Gleam brighter in every single way.
Chorus: Now from the dismal gloom Of nights incarcerate tomb Shines your celestial light Heavenly, sacred sight, Shine on celestial light A year's full cycle Are dead and gone long ago Lambs are playing Sherwood's arraying Her leafy splendour for to show
Verse 2 You're as fresh as the daybreak As radiant as the early morning sun All the weathering of the years make Your splendour a sight second to none And mortals from their sleep will wake To view you for a thousand years on.