The Lads in their hundreds
Music: Arthur Somervell (1863–1937) · Words: Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936)
The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in
for the fair, There’s men from the barn and the
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The words
The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in
for the fair, There’s men from the barn and the
forge and the mill and the fold, The lads for
the girls, and the lads for the liquor are
there, And there with the rest are the lads that
will never be old.
There’s chaps from the town and the field and
the till and the cart, And many to count are
the stalwart, and many the brave,
And many the handsome of face and the handsome
of heart; And few that will carry their looks
or their truth to the grave.
I wish one could know them, I wish there were
tokens to tell The fortunate fellows that
now you can never discern; And then one could
talk with them friendly and wish them
fare- well, And watch them depart on the way
that they will not re- turn.
But now you may stare as you like but there's
nothing to scan; And brushing your elbow
unguessed at and not be told They carry back
bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory,
the lads that will die in their glory and never
be old
About this song
- Music
- Arthur Somervell (1863–1937) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1904, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 1:51
- Its source files it as
- A Shropshire Lad
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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