# Bredon Hill

- Music: George Butterworth (died 1916)
- 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/6377942

## The words

In summer time on Bredon The bells they sound  
so clear;  
Round both the shires they ring them In steeples  
far and near, A happy noise to hear.  
Here of a Sunday morning My love and I would  
lie,  
And see the coloured counties, And hear the  
larks so high About us in the sky.  
The bells would ring to call her In valleys  
miles away:  
“Come all to church, good people;  
Good people come and pray.”  
But here my love would stay.  
And I would turn and answer Among the  
springing thyme,  
“Oh, peal upon our wedding, And we will hear  
the chime, And come to church in time.”  
But when the snows at Christmas On Bredon top  
were strown. My love rose up so early And stole  
out unbeknown And went to church  
alone.  
They tolled the one bell only, Groom there was  
none to see, The mourners followed after,  
And so to church went she, And would not wait  
for me.  
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the  
steeples hum.  
“Come all to church, good people,” - O noisy  
bells, be dumb; I hear you,  
I will come.  

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).