# It was a Lover and His Lass

- Music: Frederick Delius (died 1934)
- Words: William Shakespeare (died 1616)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6230256

## The words

It was a lover and his lass With a hey and a ho  
and a hey nonino That o'er the green cornfield  
did pass In the Springtime the only pretty  
ringtime When the birds do sing hey dingading  
ding, Sweet lovers love the Spring  
Between the acres of the rye With a hey and a  
ho and a hey nonino These pretty country  
folk would lie  
In the Springtime the only pretty ringtime  
When birds do sing hey dingading ding Sweet  
lovers love the spring. hey nonino hey nonino  
hey nonino  
And therefore take the present time With a hey  
and a ho and a hey nonino; For love is crowned  
with the prime In the springtime the only  
pretty ring time When the birds do sing hey  
dingading ding Sweet lovers love the Spring  
Hey nonino hey nonino hey nonino hey  
nonino.  

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).