Name: Loveliest of Trees
Duration: P00H01M19S
Description: My setting of a poem from 'A Shropshire Lad' (II). The tune is adapted from the reel 'The Rose Tree' (it's basically the 'A' tune), so it kind of fits here, though it's also available on 'So Sound You Sleep'. And after all that betrayal, I thought it was time for something upbeat.

Loveliest of Trees

from In a Folkier Vein by David A. Harley

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My setting of a poem from 'A Shropshire Lad' (II). The tune is adapted from the reel 'The Rose Tree' (it's basically the 'A' tune), so it kind of fits here, though it's also available on 'So Sound You Sleep'. And after all that betrayal, I thought it was time for something upbeat.

lyrics

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

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from In a Folkier Vein, released August 13, 2023
Words by A.E. Housman. Music traditional, arranged and adapted by David Harley. Guitar and vocal by David Harley.

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com