Early One Morning
COMPOSER’S NOTE
In 2011, I was commissioned by Decca Records to produce new orchestral arrangements of several British folk songs for soprano Laura Wright and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the Number One selling album, The Last Rose. Early One Morning is the eighth work on the collection and is based on the words of a beautiful anonymous folk song.
DURATION
4 minutes
SOLOIST
soprano
INSTRUMENTATION
Piano OR Strings, flute, oboe & harp
YEAR OF COMPOSITION
2011
PUBLISHER
Novello
SHEET MUSIC
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Early one morning
Just as the sun was rising,
I heard a young maid sing
In the valley below.
Chorus:
Oh, don’t deceive me,
Oh, never leave me,
How could you treat
A poor maiden so?
Oh Gay is the garland
And fresh are the roses,
I’ve culled from the garden
To bind on thy brow.
Chorus
Remember the vows
That you made to your Mary,
Remember the bow’r
Where you vowed to be true.
Don’t deceive me!
Never leave me!
Thus sung the maiden,
Her sorrow bewailing,
Thus sung the poor maid
In the valley below.
Chorus
Words: Anon
