# Milly’s Faith

- Music: Charlotte Alington Barnard (died 1869)
- Words: Charlotte Alington Pye (died 1869)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6622814

## The words

Our village was sad when the soldiers came,  
But we hadn’t the heart our lads to blame,  
For what with the drums and the ribbons gay,  
The soldiers flatter’d their hearts away.  
Although the neighbours bitterly cried,  
And many a heart was sad beside,  
But mine methought was the saddest of all,  
As I watch’d them away at the even fall;  
Tho’ I laugh’d and I told them to let me be,  
For I know that our Mark will be true to me;  
Tho’ I laugh’d and I told them to let me be,  
For I know that our Mark will be true to me.  
To fight in the battles it was too bad They  
should come for a harmless village lad,  
To take him away from his friends and home,  
And carry him o’er the salt sea foam.  
Oh! would those drums had never come near,  
For Mark was happy and peaceful here;  
Content to follow his father’s plough.  
Oh! I wish in my heart he was after it now;  
Tho’ I laugh and I tell them to let me be,  
For I know that our Mark will be true to me;  
Tho’ I laugh and I tell them to let me be,  
For I know that our Mark will be true to me.  
But summer has gone, and a year has flown,  
Since we follow’d their marching o’er the  
down, And wherever they went is a puzzle to  
me, But I know that it’s somewhere across the  
sea. And Mark went marching off with the rest,  
And held up his head as well as the best;  
And if the battles be won, I know It is all  
thro’ persuading our Mark to go.  
So I laugh and I tell them to let me be,  
For I know that our Mark will be true to me;  
So I laugh and I tell them to let me be,  
For I know that our Mark will be true to me.  

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).