# The Lads in their hundreds

- 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/6222828

## 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  

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).