# Think no more, Lad, laugh, be jolly

- 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/6221650

## The words

Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly;  
Why should men make haste to die?  
Empty heads and tongues atalking Make the  
rough road easy walking, And the feather pate  
of folly Bears the falling sky.  
Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the  
heavy world around. If young hearts were not  
so clever, Oh, they would be young for ever;  
Think no more: ’tis only thinking Lays lads  
under- ground.  
Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly;  
Why should men make haste to die?  
Empty heads and tongues atalking Make the  
rough road easy walking, And the feather pate  
of folly Bears the falling sky.  

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).