# When the Lad for Longing Sighs

- 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/6378373

## The words

When the lad for longing sighs, Mute and dull  
of cheer and pale, If at death’s own door he  
lies, Maiden, you can heal his ail.  
Lovers’ ills are all to buy: The wan look,  
the hollow tone, The hung head, the sunken  
eye, You can have them for your own.  
Buy them, buy them: eve and morn Lovers’ ills  
are all to sell. Then you can lie down forlorn;  
But the lover will be well.  

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).