Cavalier (Masefield, set by H. Gardiner, V. Hickey, S. Lewis, P. Turnbull) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


All the merry kettle-drums are thudding into rhyme, 
Dust is swimming dizzily down the village street, 
The scabbards are clattering, the feathers nodding time, 
To a clink of many horses' shoes, a tramp of many feet. 

Seven score of Cavaliers fighting for the King, 
Trolling lusty stirrup-songs, clamouring for wine, 
Riding with a loose rein, marching with a swing, 
Beneath the blue bannerol of Rupert of the Rhine. 

Hey the merry company ; -- the loud fifes playing -- 
Blue scarves and bright steel and blossom of the may, 
Roses in the feathered hats, the long plumes swaying, 
A king's son ahead of them showing them the way.

Authorship

John Masefield (1878-1967)

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950)

Vivian Hickey

Samuel R. Lewis

Percy Turnbull (1902-)

Date added to the website: 2008-10-23.

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