Catalogue title: 26 Welsh Songs, WoO 155.

Scoring: 1-2 voice(s), violin, cello, piano (or harp).

Composed: 1810-15.

Individual item 16 from the corresponding collection, not the complete set.... Read more

Catalogue title: 26 Welsh Songs, WoO 155.

Scoring: 1-2 voice(s), violin, cello, piano (or harp).

Composed: 1810-15.

Individual item 16 from the corresponding collection, not the complete set.

Item in the set: The damsels of Cardigan. Allegretto (G major).

Sung text (original language):
Fair Tivy how sweet are thy waves
gently flowing,
Thy wild saken woods and green
eglantine bow’rs,
Thy banks with the blush rose and
amaranth glowing,
While friendship and mirth claim these
labourless hours.

REFRAIN:
Yet weak is our vaunt, while something
we want,
More sweet than the pleasures which
prospects can give:
Come, smile, sweet damsels of
Cardigan!
Love can alone make it blissful to live.

How sweet was the strain that
enliven’d the spirit,
And cheer’d us with numbers so frolic
and free!
The poet is absent, be just to his merit!
Ah may he in love be mor happy than
we!

REFRAIN

How sweet was the circle of friends
round a table,
Where stately Kilgarran o’erhangs the
brown dale,
Where none are unwilling, and few are
unable,
To sing a wild song, or repeat a wild
tale!

REFRAIN

W. Jones

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