# Say, o say! saith the music

- Music: Charles Villiers Stanford (died 1924)
- Words: Robert Seymour Bridges (died 1930)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6205716

## The words

I love my lady's eyes Above the beauties rare  
She most is wont to prize, Above her sunny  
hair,  
And all that face to face her glass repeats of  
grace.  
For those are still the same To her and all that  
see:  
but oh! her eyes will flame when they do look on  
me:  
And so above the rest I love her eyes the best.  
Now say, say, o say! saith the music who likes  
my song? I knew you by your eyes,  
That rest on nothing long, And have forgot  
surprise;  
And stray, stray, oh stray! saith the music!  
As mine will stray,  
the while my love's away.  

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).