# When I am dead, my dearest

- Music: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (died 1912)
- Words: Christina Georgina Rossetti (died 1894)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6189644

## The words

When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs  
for me; Plant thou no roses at my head,  
Nor shady cypress tree:  
Be the green grass above me With show'rs and  
dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember,  
And if thou wilt, forget.  
I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel  
the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale  
Sing, sing on, as if in pain:  
And dreaming through the twilight That doth  
not rise nor set, Haply I may remember,  
And haply may forget.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).