On the Idle Hill of Summer
Music: George Butterworth (1885–1916) · Words: Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936)
On the idle hill of summer, Sleepy with the
flow of streams,
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The words
On the idle hill of summer, Sleepy with the
flow of streams,
Far I hear the steady drummer Drumming like a
noise in dreams.
Far and near and low and louder,
On the roads of earth go by, Dear to friends and
food for powder, Soldiers marching,
all to die.
East and west on fields forgotten Bleach the
bones of comrades slain, Lovely lads and dead
and rotten; None that go return again.
Far the calling bugles hollo, High the
screaming fife replies, Gay the files of
scarlet follow:
Woman bore me,
I will rise.
About this song
- Music
- George Butterworth (1885–1916) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Alfred Edward Housman (1859–1936) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1912, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:24
- Its source files it as
- Bredon Hill and Other Songs
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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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). “K-pop” and “anime songs” are said only where a source says so. Where songs from scores are offered.