# The Shepherd’s Song

- Music: Edward Elgar (died 1934)
- Words: Barry Eric Odell Pain (died 1928)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6236155

## The words

Down the dusty road together Homeward pass  
the hurrying sheep, Stupid with the summer  
weather, Too much grass and too much sleep,  
I, their shepherd, sing to thee That summer is  
a joy to me.  
Down the shore rolled waves all creamy With the  
flecked surf yesternight; I swam far out in  
starlight dreamy, In moving waters cool and  
bright, I, the shepherd, sing to thee:  
I love the strong life of the sea.  
And upon the hillside growing Where the fat  
sheep dozed in shade, Bright red poppies I  
found blowing, Drowsy, tall and loosely made,  
I, the shepherd, sing to thee How fair the  
bright red poppies be.  
To the redtiled homestead bending Winds the  
road, so white and long Day and work are near  
their ending Sleep and dreams will end my song,  
I, the shepherd, sing to thee; In the dreamtime  
answer, answer me, In the dreamtime answer,  
answer me.  

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).