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Fun song. Can you guess who wrote the words?
Melody, singing and music are all by me, Ricardo Lardo! Enjoy.
The words are from "Gawain's Leave-Taking," a partial translation by J.R.R. Tolkien of a poem found in a group of 14th-century lyrics with refrains in the Vernon manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The original poem has no connection with Sir Gawain, although Tolkien, by assigning this title to the poem extract, is clearly referencing Gawain's departure from the castle of Sir Bertilak to go to the tryst at the Green Chapel.
More here: http://www.ricardolardo.com/music/I-Take-My-Leave.html
Melody, singing and music are all by me, Ricardo Lardo! Enjoy.
The words are from "Gawain's Leave-Taking," a partial translation by J.R.R. Tolkien of a poem found in a group of 14th-century lyrics with refrains in the Vernon manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The original poem has no connection with Sir Gawain, although Tolkien, by assigning this title to the poem extract, is clearly referencing Gawain's departure from the castle of Sir Bertilak to go to the tryst at the Green Chapel.
More here: http://www.ricardolardo.com/music/I-Take-My-Leave.html
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Lyrics
I Take My Leave
Now Lords and Ladies blithe and bold,
To bless you here now am I bound:
I thank you all a thousand-fold,
And pray God save you whole and sound;
Wherever you go on grass or ground,
May he you guide that nought you grieve,
For friendship that I here have found
Against my will I take my leave.
For friendship and for favours good,
For meat and drink you heaped on me,
The Lord that raised was on the Rood
Now keep you comely company.
On sea or land where’er you be,
May he you guide that nought you grieve
Such fair delight you laid on me
Against my will I take my leave.
Against my will although I wend,
I may not always tarry here;
For everything must have an end,
And even friends must part, I fear;
Be we beloved however dear
Out of this world death will us reave,
And when we brought are to our bier
Against our will we take our leave.
Now good day to you, goodmen all,
And good day to you, young and old,
And good day to you, great and small,
And grammercy a thousand-fold!
If ought there were that dear ye hold,
Full fain I would the deed achieve—
Now Christ you keep from sorrows cold
For now at last I take my leave.
Note: Rood = the cross on which Christ was crucified
(partial translation of 14th-century English lyrics by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Now Lords and Ladies blithe and bold,
To bless you here now am I bound:
I thank you all a thousand-fold,
And pray God save you whole and sound;
Wherever you go on grass or ground,
May he you guide that nought you grieve,
For friendship that I here have found
Against my will I take my leave.
For friendship and for favours good,
For meat and drink you heaped on me,
The Lord that raised was on the Rood
Now keep you comely company.
On sea or land where’er you be,
May he you guide that nought you grieve
Such fair delight you laid on me
Against my will I take my leave.
Against my will although I wend,
I may not always tarry here;
For everything must have an end,
And even friends must part, I fear;
Be we beloved however dear
Out of this world death will us reave,
And when we brought are to our bier
Against our will we take our leave.
Now good day to you, goodmen all,
And good day to you, young and old,
And good day to you, great and small,
And grammercy a thousand-fold!
If ought there were that dear ye hold,
Full fain I would the deed achieve—
Now Christ you keep from sorrows cold
For now at last I take my leave.
Note: Rood = the cross on which Christ was crucified
(partial translation of 14th-century English lyrics by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Feter
I think this is one of the best music ever
been posted here ...such authentic sound
and singing ...I thought you are one of my
friends over MJ but sometimes my ears fails
me ...I cant thank you for posting such
delightful music ..please more ...!!!!
(who wrote the music ?)