Bird Of Blue 1918 "A Southern Maid"

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 19 Jun 2003

A fair Princess, by magic pow'r
was shut within a castle tow'r,
when at her lattice came to sing
a fairy Bird with azure wing.
He sang to her:
"I love you well,
A King am I,
beneath a spell
so take my heart and give your hand,
and follow me through fairy land!"

Onward you wander
to my kingdom out yonder,
over mountain and hollow
you follow all through!
But you will discover
your lover was true.
Never mind, You will find
your own Bird of Blue!

So when the Bird had taken flight,
she fled away one moonless night;
without her robes, without her crown,
a peasant maid in tattered gown!
By thorny wood and rocky wold,
until she saw his tow'rs of gold,
and marriage bells rang out the song
her heart had sung the whole way long.

Onward you wander
to his kingdom out yonder,
over mountain and hollow
I follow all through!
And now I discover
my lover is true.
I have found gold encrown'd
my own Bird of Blue!

Soft karaoke
Words
str 25
str 50
str 110
fr hrn 60
brass 75
flute
drum
bassoon
clarinet
piano t clef
oboe
pizz str
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Bird Of Blue 1918
Music by Harold Fraser-Simson
Lyrics by Adrian Ross
from "A Southern Maid"
copyright MCMXXVIII-XIX and XX by Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crewe
sequence and karaoke by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
on Thursday 19 June 2003 at 08.58
in association with Doug Grierson
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