# The Will o’ the Wisp

- Music: Ann Mounsey (died 1891)
- Words: Charles Mackay
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6648208

## The words

Where the Snake lurks in the tangled grass,  
By the slippery brink of the dark morass,  
Merrily O! Merrily O! I light my lamp,  
and forth I go.  
And to lure astray the lated wight,  
I shine all night in the swampy hollows,  
Merrily O! Merrily O! Wailing and woe to  
the fool who follows!  
O! love, and friendship, and I, make three;  
We roam together in company! Merrily O!  
Merrily O! We light our lamps, and forth we  
go!  
Friendship showeth a steaddy ray,  
But her dupes ne’er dream that her heart is  
hollow; Merrily O! Merrily O!  
Wailing and woe to the fools who follow!  
O! Love, indeed hath a brighter gleam;  
What is so bright as her first fond dream?  
Merrily O! Merrily O! We light our lamps,  
and forth we go!  
If love be true, ’tis blighted soon:  
But false, or true, its vows are hollow Merrily  
O! Merrily O! Wailing and woe to the fools  
who follow!  

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).