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The Shy Man
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SATB/piano
Secular text in
English by Theodore
Roethke
Difficulty rating (1-5): 2 This piece has not yet been premiered. Please contact me if you are interested in premiering this piece.
I was pleased to
happen across this
simple Irish ballad by
Roethke one day in the
library.
It led me to
look at much more of
his poetry and to also
discover his writings
on creativity, much of
which is pithy,
humorous, and truly,
“balls-on dead
accurate”, to quote
from “My Cousin Vinny”.
This piece is
dedicated to a
wonderful conductor,
choral department head
at Naperville North
High School, and
member of the Chicago
Symphony Chorus, Jim
Yarbrough.
TEXT
The full moon was shining
upon the broad sea;
I sang to the one star that
look'd down at me;
I sang to the white horse
that graz'd on the quay,--
As I walk'd down by the
high sea-wall.
But
my lips they,
My lips they,
Said never a word,
As I moped by the high
sea-wall.
The curlew's slow night
song came on the water.
That tremble of sweet notes
set my heart astir,
As I walk'd beside her, the
O'Connell's daughter,
I knew that I did love her.
But my lips
they,
My lips they,
Said never a word,
As we walk'd by the high
sea-wall.
The full moon has fallen, the night wind is
down
And I lie here thinking in bleak Bofin town.
I lie here and thinking, "I am not alone."
For here close beside me is O'Connell's
daughter,
And my lips they, my lips they,
Say many a many a word,
As we
embrace by the high sea-wall.
O! my lips they, my lips they,
say many a word,
As we kiss by the high sea-wall.
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