# On the Idle Hill of Summer

- 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/6379527

## 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.  

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).