Product Description
'Do As You Will' is a folksy, Celtic feel choral song arranged for SSAA -with harp, flute, fiddle, and accordion accompaniment. Its shifting tonality adds complexity. The lyric is female point of view:
Do As You Will
Once I had a soldier lad who swore hed love me truly.
Ah! But now those days are gone!
When the battle raged he turned his heel and followed duly.
I gave him the salute and soldiered on.
The winds about the barley
and the mice are in the meal,
so rise up bright and early
all young lasses if you would do as you will.
Then I loved a farmers son whose trinkets were his kisses.
Ah! But now those days are gone!
But on the road to market he had scores of narrow misses.
I tossed him out for chaff and ploughed straight on.
The winds about the barley
and the mice are in the meal,
so rise up bright and early
all young lasses if you would do as you will.
Next I had a blacksmith who was swarthy, dark, and handsome.
Ah! But now those days are gone!
He stole away my store of coin and ran off with the ransom.
I hope he finds the fires! Im forging on!
The winds about the barley
and the mice are in the meal,
so rise up bright and early
all young lasses if you would do as you will.
Jack the Tinker courted me, and he was ever willing.
Ah! But now those days are gone!
Everywhere he plied his trade he fell to Jack and Jilling.
I rattled his old pans and wandered on.
The winds about the barley
and the mice are in the meal,
so rise up bright and early
all young lasses if you would do as you will.
Theres no faith in any man, not even my own brother.
Ah! But would those days were gone!
Girls, if you but would, or can, youd best love one another
and leave them all behind and carry on!
The winds about the barley
and the mice are in the meal,
so rise up bright and early
all young lasses if you would do as you will.
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