The Little Turtle Dove (Ian Bostridge)

" The Little Turtle Dove "

Words and Music : English traditional
(collected by Cecil Sharp)

Tenor : Ian Bostridge


Lyrics :

O can't you see yon little turtle dove
Sitting under the mulberry tree?
See how that she doth mourn for her true love:
And I shall mourn for thee, my dear,
And I shall mourn for thee.

O fare thee well, my little turtle dove,
And fare thee well for a while:
But though I go l'll surely come again
lf I go ten thousand mile, my dear,
lf I go ten thousand mile.

Ten thousand mile is very far away,
For you to return to me.
You leave me here to lament, and well-a-day!

My tears you will not see, my love,
My tears you will not see.

The crow that's black, my little turtle dove,
Shall change its colour white;
Before I'm false to the maiden that I love,
The noon-day shall be night, my dear,
The noon-day shall be night.


" Moonrise Over the Sea "

Caspar David Friedrich ( 1774 -- 1840 )

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[daseina]

Feel something very special about this song. It's very beautiful! Want to listen it again and again.. I love it!

Really thank you very much, Sadanori, for sharing with us so much of beauty and art together!

Sending my love and best wishes!

Dace

[halynamyroslava]

Thank you, Sadanori

[diogenesagogo]

Absolutely beautiful. But, by a strange, ironic coincidence, I've just finished reading Troilus & Cressida. Something of a contrast in sentiment there.

[Sedraen]

Something about the lack of accompaniment added with the waxing-and-waning melody creates a perfect, haunting beauty in this. I love it.