52 Week Song Cycle #21
Lover and His Lass (c) 2010 Mattroi Berger
Another tune from New York Neo’s forthcoming As You Like It project. Melissa Lusk and I are composing the score in tandem. This may be the most uptempo song in the show right now, and it’s an awful lot of fun to play live. Look for the show this Fall in NYC.
Another song from the show: Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind.
Music by Mattroi
Lyrics by Shakespeare
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It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o’er the green corn-field did pass
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, Hey ding a ding, ding:
Sweet lovers love the spring.
Between the acres of the rye,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
These pretty country folks would lie,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, Hey ding a ding, ding:
Sweet lovers love the spring.
This carol they began that hour,
How that a life was but a flower,
And therefore take the present time,
For love is crowned with the prime
