# Robin Sly

- Music: Sir Harold Boulton, 2nd Baronet (died 1935)
- Words: Harold Boulton (died 1935)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6405594

## The words

In the shade sits Robin Sly, Waiting there  
till Kate comes by; Lover’s quarrel has been  
rife, Robin vows that, ere it ends,  
Kate must kiss and make amends;  
“Wilful maid makes shrewish wife,  
wilful maid makes shrewish wife.”  
So says Robin,  
wise Sir Robin,  
Brave Robin Sly, Brave Robin Sly.  
But while Robin sits sedate, Who comes through  
the wicket gate? Who but Kate and Ploughman  
Joe? Kate that laughs at Robin Sly,  
Singing as she passes by,  
“Let him cool a year or so, let him cool a year  
or so.” Angry Robin,  
wistful Robin,  
Sad Robin Sly, sad Robin Sly.  
Joe the happiest husband thrives,  
Kate the most discreet of wives;  
So it is that in the wooing Maids must have the  
mastery, Men must wait till by and bye.  
Learning this was thy undoing,  
Learning this was thy undoing,  
Hasty Robin,  
foolish Robin,  
Poor Robin Sly, poor Robin Sly.  

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).