The Merry Minstrels - 1940

James Pitt-Payne, London, and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia

I love the merry Minstrels
that come to my garden
Each morning at sunrise their chorus to sing.
A band of serenaders, sweet melody makers,
Such gay entertainers would honour a king
If they should desert me
it surely would hurt me
I cannot believe they would leave me for long,
'Tis wonderful to hear them
and know I am near them
God sent the merry Minstrels
to greet me with song.

I love the merry Minstrels,
and who would deny me
The joy that they bring to my heart
when they sing,
When ever I am lonely, I think of them only,
And pray for the comfort
their coming will bring.
Sometimes in my slumbers
I vision their numbers,
Like fairies returning to me on the wing,
They never will forsake me,
if sorrows o'er take me
I love the merry Minstrels,
the merry, merry Minstrels,
I love the merry Minstrels
God made them to sing.

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The Merry Minstrels 1940
by Horace Gleeson
copyright MCMXL by Chappell and Co. Ltd., Sydney
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Friday 04 Jan 2002 at 07.38
in association with Doug Grierson
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