# When I was one-and-twenty

- Music: Arthur Somervell (died 1937)
- Words: Alfred Edward Housman (died 1936)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6210961

## The words

When I was oneandtwenty I heard a wise man  
say, ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas But  
not your heart away; Give pearls away and  
rubies But keep your fancy free.’  
But I was oneandtwenty No use to talk to me.  
When I was oneandtwenty I heard him say  
again, ‘The heart out of the bosom Was never  
given in vain; ’Tis paid with sighs aplenty,  
And sold for endless rue.’ And I am  
twoandtwenty, And oh, ’tis true,  
’tis true.  

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).